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# S2T Example: ST on CoVoST
We replicate the experiments in
[CoVoST 2 and Massively Multilingual Speech-to-Text Translation (Wang et al., 2020)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10310).

## Data Preparation
[Download](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets) and unpack Common Voice v4 to a path
`${COVOST_ROOT}/${SOURCE_LANG_ID}`, then preprocess it with
```bash
# additional Python packages for S2T data processing/model training
pip install pandas torchaudio sentencepiece

# En ASR
python examples/speech_to_text/prep_covost_data.py \
  --data-root ${COVOST_ROOT} --vocab-type char --src-lang en
# ST
python examples/speech_to_text/prep_covost_data.py \
  --data-root ${COVOST_ROOT} --vocab-type char \
  --src-lang fr --tgt-lang en
```
The generated files (manifest, features, vocabulary and data configuration) will be added to
`${COVOST_ROOT}/${SOURCE_LANG_ID}`.

Download our vocabulary files if you want to use our pre-trained models:
- ASR: [En](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_asr_vocab_char.zip)
- ST: [Fr-En](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_fr_en_st_vocab_char.zip), [De-En](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_de_en_st_vocab_char.zip), [Es-En](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_es_en_st_vocab_char.zip), [Ca-En](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_ca_en_st_vocab_char.zip), [En-De](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_de_st_vocab_char.zip), [En-Ca](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_ca_st_vocab_char.zip), [En-Fa](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_fa_st_vocab_char.zip), [En-Et](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_et_st_vocab_char.zip)

## ASR
#### Training
We train an En ASR model for encoder pre-training of all ST models:
```bash
fairseq-train ${COVOST_ROOT}/en \
  --config-yaml config_asr_en.yaml --train-subset train_asr_en --valid-subset dev_asr_en \
  --save-dir ${ASR_SAVE_DIR} --num-workers 4 --max-tokens 50000 --max-update 60000 \
  --task speech_to_text --criterion label_smoothed_cross_entropy --label-smoothing 0.1 \
  --report-accuracy --arch s2t_transformer_s --dropout 0.15 --optimizer adam --lr 2e-3 \
  --lr-scheduler inverse_sqrt --warmup-updates 10000 --clip-norm 10.0 --seed 1 --update-freq 8
```
where `ASR_SAVE_DIR` is the checkpoint root path. We set `--update-freq 8` to simulate 8 GPUs with 1 GPU.
You may want to update it accordingly when using more than 1 GPU.

#### Inference & Evaluation
```bash
CHECKPOINT_FILENAME=avg_last_10_checkpoint.pt
python scripts/average_checkpoints.py \
  --inputs ${ASR_SAVE_DIR} --num-epoch-checkpoints 10 \
  --output "${ASR_SAVE_DIR}/${CHECKPOINT_FILENAME}"
fairseq-generate ${COVOST_ROOT}/en \
  --config-yaml config_asr_en.yaml --gen-subset test_asr_en --task speech_to_text \
  --path ${ASR_SAVE_DIR}/${CHECKPOINT_FILENAME} --max-tokens 50000 --beam 5 \
  --scoring wer --wer-tokenizer 13a --wer-lowercase --wer-remove-punct
```
#### Results
| --arch | Params | En | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| s2t_transformer_s | 31M | 25.6 | [Download](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_asr_transformer_s.pt) |

## ST
#### Training
Fr-En as example:
```bash
fairseq-train ${COVOST_ROOT}/fr \
  --config-yaml config_st_fr_en.yaml --train-subset train_st_fr_en --valid-subset dev_st_fr_en \
  --save-dir ${ST_SAVE_DIR} --num-workers 4 --max-update 30000 --max-tokens 40000 \  # --max-tokens 50000 for en-*
  --task speech_to_text --criterion label_smoothed_cross_entropy --label-smoothing 0.1 --report-accuracy \
  --arch s2t_transformer_s --encoder-freezing-updates 1000 --optimizer adam --lr 2e-3 \
  --lr-scheduler inverse_sqrt --warmup-updates 10000 --clip-norm 10.0 --seed 1 --update-freq 8 \
  --load-pretrained-encoder-from ${ASR_SAVE_DIR}/${CHECKPOINT_FILENAME}
```
where `ST_SAVE_DIR` is the checkpoint root path. The ST encoder is pre-trained by En ASR for faster training and better
performance: `--load-pretrained-encoder-from <ASR checkpoint path>`. We set `--update-freq 8` to simulate 8 GPUs with 1 GPU.
You may want to update it accordingly when using more than 1 GPU.

#### Inference & Evaluation
Average the last 10 checkpoints and evaluate on test split:
```bash
CHECKPOINT_FILENAME=avg_last_10_checkpoint.pt
python scripts/average_checkpoints.py \
  --inputs ${ST_SAVE_DIR} --num-epoch-checkpoints 10 \
  --output "${ST_SAVE_DIR}/${CHECKPOINT_FILENAME}"
fairseq-generate ${COVOST_ROOT}/fr \
  --config-yaml config_st_fr_en.yaml --gen-subset test_st_fr_en --task speech_to_text \
  --path ${ST_SAVE_DIR}/${CHECKPOINT_FILENAME} \
  --max-tokens 50000 --beam 5 --scoring sacrebleu
```

## Interactive Decoding
Launch the interactive console via
```bash
fairseq-interactive ${COVOST_ROOT}/fr --config-yaml config_st_fr_en.yaml \
  --task speech_to_text --path ${SAVE_DIR}/${CHECKPOINT_FILENAME} \
  --max-tokens 50000 --beam 5
```
Type in WAV/FLAC/OGG audio paths (one per line) after the prompt.

#### Results
| --arch | Params | Fr-En | De-En | Es-En | Ca-En | En-De | En-Ca | En-Fa | En-Et | Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s2t_transformer_s | 31M | [27.2](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_fr_en_st_transformer_s.pt) | [17.7](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_de_en_st_transformer_s.pt) | [23.1](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_es_en_st_transformer_s.pt) | [19.3](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_ca_en_st_transformer_s.pt) | [16.1](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_de_st_transformer_s.pt) | [21.6](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_ca_st_transformer_s.pt) | [12.9](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_fa_st_transformer_s.pt) | [12.8](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/s2t/covost2_en_et_st_transformer_s.pt) | (<-Download) |

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