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تعدد اللغات الكلام ترجمة كيت @ IWSLT2021
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تحتوي هذه الورقة على وصف لتقديم معهد Karlsruhe للتكنولوجيا (KIT) لمهمة ترجمة TEDX متعددة اللغات في حملة تقييم IWSLT 2021.نهجنا الرئيسي هو تطوير كل من النظم المتتالية ونظم نهاية إلى نهاية وتجمع بينها في نهاية المطاف لتحقيق أفضل النتائج الممكنة لهذا الإعداد المنخفض للغاية الموارد.يؤكد التقرير أيضا تحسين بعض التحسن المعماري المتسق إضافته إلى بنية المحولات، لجميع المهام: ترجمة الترجمة والنسخ والنطق.
This paper contains the description for the submission of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for the multilingual TEDx translation task in the IWSLT 2021 evaluation campaign. Our main approach is to develop both cascade and end-to-end systems and eventually combine them together to achieve the best possible results for this extremely low-resource setting. The report also confirms certain consistent architectural improvement added to the Transformer architecture, for all tasks: translation, transcription and speech translation.
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