Dataset Card for "Europarl-ST"

Dataset Summary

Europarl-ST is a Multilingual Speech Translation Corpus, that contains paired audio-text samples for Speech Translation, constructed using the debates carried out in the European Parliament in the period between 2008 and 2012.

Languages

Spanish, German, English, French, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

• original_audio: The original speech that is heard on the recording.
• original_language: The language of the audio
• audio_path: Path to the audio file
• segment_start: Second in which the speech begins
• segment_end: Second in which the speech ends
• transcriptions: Dictionary containing transcriptions into different languages

Data Splits

• train split: 116138 samples
• valid split: 17538 samples
• test split: 18901 samples

Train set (hours):

src/tgt	en	fr	de	it	es	pt	pl	ro	nl
en	-	81	83	80	81	81	79	72	80
fr	32	-	21	20	21	22	20	18	22
de	30	18	-	17	18	18	17	17	18
it	37	21	21	-	21	21	21	19	20
es	22	14	14	14	-	14	13	12	13
pt	15	10	10	10	10	-	9	9	9
pl	28	18	18	17	18	18	-	16	18
ro	24	12	12	12	12	12	12	-	12
nl	7	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	-

Valid/Test sets are all between 3 and 6 hours.

Additional Information

Licensing Information

• The work carried out for constructing the Europarl-ST corpus is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0)

• All rights of the data belong to the European Union and respective copyright holders.

Citation Information

If you use the corpus in your research please cite the following reference:

@INPROCEEDINGS{jairsan2020a, author={J. {Iranzo-Sánchez} and J. A. {Silvestre-Cerdà} and J. {Jorge} and N. {Roselló} and A. {Giménez} and A. {Sanchis} and J. {Civera} and A. {Juan}}, booktitle={ICASSP 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, title={Europarl-ST: A Multilingual Corpus for Speech Translation of Parliamentary Debates}, year={2020}, pages={8229-8233},}