KIT Lecture Translator: Multilingual Speech Translation with One-Shot Learning (C18-2)
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Florian Dessloch, Thanh-Le Ha, Markus Müller, Jan Niehues, Thai-Son Nguyen, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Elizabeth Salesky, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Thomas Zenkel, Alexander Waibel
| Challenge: | In today's globalized world, communication is difficult and often the language barrier still prevents communication. |
| Approach: | They have developed a low-latency translation system that is adapted to lectures and covers several language pairs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves performance but also covers several European languages. |
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