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SpeechMatrix: A Large-Scale Mined Corpus of Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translations
Document Type
Working Paper
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Subject
Computer Science - Computation and Language
Computer Science - Sound
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Audio and Speech Processing
Language
Abstract
We present SpeechMatrix, a large-scale multilingual corpus of speech-to-speech translations mined from real speech of European Parliament recordings. It contains speech alignments in 136 language pairs with a total of 418 thousand hours of speech. To evaluate the quality of this parallel speech, we train bilingual speech-to-speech translation models on mined data only and establish extensive baseline results on EuroParl-ST, VoxPopuli and FLEURS test sets. Enabled by the multilinguality of SpeechMatrix, we also explore multilingual speech-to-speech translation, a topic which was addressed by few other works. We also demonstrate that model pre-training and sparse scaling using Mixture-of-Experts bring large gains to translation performance. The mined data and models are freely available.
Comment: 18 pages