ELITR : E uropean Live Translator (2020)

Abstract: ELITR (European Live Translator) project aims to create a speech translation system for simultaneous subtitling of conferences and online meetings targetting up to 43 languages. The technology is tested by the Supreme Audit Office of the Czech Republic and by alfaview®, a German online conferencing system. Other project goals are to advance document-level and multilingual machine translation, automatic speech recognition, and automatic minuting.

## objectives elitr objectives are research and innovations in the field of spoken language and text translation and automatic summarization of meetings. ## elitr slt system elitr's integration of components of spoken language translation builds on a proprietary software solution by the project integrator pervoice. the central point is a server called the "mediator". "workers" for slt subtasks, such as automatic speech recognition, machine translation, and intermediate punctuating component for specific languages, potentially in event-specific or experimental versions, are provided by research labs in the consortium, ran on their hardware and connected to the mediator. a client requests a specific task, for example, german audio into czech translation, and the mediator connects a cascade of workers to deliver the requested output. the last worker finally publishes subtitles on a webpage. meeting participants follow subtitles and slides on personal devices. the system provides simultaneous low latency translation. we follow the re-translation approach of @xcite . the translation is first displayed around 1 second after the speaker, and then it is occasionally corrected and finalized after approximately 7 seconds.