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most citedGoogle's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation

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cs.CL2022★ 17 cited

SQuId: Measuring Speech Naturalness in Many Languages

Thibault Sellam, Ankur Bapna, Joshua Camp +3

Much of text-to-speech research relies on human evaluation, which incurs heavy costs and slows down the development process. The problem is particularly acute in heavily multilingu…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

FRMT: A Benchmark for Few-Shot Region-Aware Machine Translation

Parker Riley, Timothy Dozat, Jan A. Botha +5

We present FRMT, a new dataset and evaluation benchmark for Few-shot Region-aware Machine Translation, a type of style-targeted translation. The dataset consists of professional tr…

cs.CL2022★ 15 cited

FLEURS: Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech

Alexis Conneau, Min Ma, Simran Khanuja +6

We introduce FLEURS, the Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech benchmark. FLEURS is an n-way parallel speech dataset in 102 languages built on top of…

cs.CL2022★ 43 cited

Building Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages

Ankur Bapna, Isaac Caswell, Julia Kreutzer +21

In this paper we share findings from our effort to build practical machine translation (MT) systems capable of translating across over one thousand languages. We describe results i…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

XTREME-S: Evaluating Cross-lingual Speech Representations

Alexis Conneau, Ankur Bapna, Yu Zhang +16

We introduce XTREME-S, a new benchmark to evaluate universal cross-lingual speech representations in many languages. XTREME-S covers four task families: speech recognition, classif…

cs.CL2022★ 59 cited

mSLAM: Massively multilingual joint pre-training for speech and text

Ankur Bapna, Colin Cherry, Yu Zhang +6

We present mSLAM, a multilingual Speech and LAnguage Model that learns cross-lingual cross-modal representations of speech and text by pre-training jointly on large amounts of unla…