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dataset_info:
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- name: original_language
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- name: transcriptions
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- name: en
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- name: es
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- name: fr
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- name: it
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- name: pl
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- name: valid
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task_categories:
- translation
- text-to-speech
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- es
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- en
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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
---
# Dataset Card for "Europarl-ST"
## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
- [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
- [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
## Dataset Description
- **Homepage:** https://www.mllp.upv.es/europarl-st/
- **Paper:** https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9054626
- **Point of Contact:** https://www.mllp.upv.es/
### 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},}