CoVoST 2 and Massively Multilingual Speech-to-Text Translation

Understand

Speech translation has recently become an increasingly popular topic of research, partly due to the development of benchmark datasets.

• Nevertheless, current datasets cover a limited number of languages.
• With the aim to foster research in massive multilingual speech translation and speech translation for low resource language pairs, we release CoVoST 2, a large-scale multilingual speech translation corpus covering translations from 21 languages into English and from English into 15 languages.
• This represents the largest open dataset available to date from total volume and language coverage perspective.