Tomasz Potapczyk


2020

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SRPOL’s System for the IWSLT 2020 End-to-End Speech Translation Task
Tomasz Potapczyk | Pawel Przybysz
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation

We took part in the offline End-to-End English to German TED lectures translation task. We based our solution on our last year’s submission. We used a slightly altered Transformer architecture with ResNet-like convolutional layer preparing the audio input to Transformer encoder. To improve the model’s quality of translation we introduced two regularization techniques and trained on machine translated Librispeech corpus in addition to iwslt-corpus, TEDLIUM2 andMust_C corpora. Our best model scored almost 3 BLEU higher than last year’s model. To segment 2020 test set we used exactly the same procedure as last year.

2019

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Samsung’s System for the IWSLT 2019 End-to-End Speech Translation Task
Tomasz Potapczyk | Pawel Przybysz | Marcin Chochowski | Artur Szumaczuk
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation

This paper describes the submission to IWSLT 2019 End- to-End speech translation task by Samsung R&D Institute, Poland. We decided to focus on end-to-end English to German TED lectures translation and did not provide any submission for other speech tasks. We used a slightly altered Transformer architecture with standard convolutional layer preparing the audio input to Transformer en- coder. Additionally, we propose an audio segmentation al- gorithm maximizing BLEU score on tst2015 test set.