# ESPnet-ST: All-in-One Speech Translation Toolkit

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.10234 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.10234/

## Key facts

- Cited by 82 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 21 Apr 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 82)

- [SpeechT5: Unified-Modal Encoder-Decoder Pre-Training for Spoken Language Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.07205/) (2021)
- [WaveFake: A Data Set to Facilitate Audio Deepfake Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.02813/) (2021)
- [Unified Speech-Text Pre-training for Speech Translation and Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.05409/) (2022)
- [Cross-modal Contrastive Learning for Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.02444/) (2022)
- [STEMM: Self-learning with Speech-text Manifold Mixup for Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.10426/) (2022)
- [Cascade versus Direct Speech Translation: Do the Differences Still Make a Difference?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.01045/) (2021)
- [Lightweight Adapter Tuning for Multilingual Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.01463/) (2021)
- [Improving Speech Translation by Understanding and Learning from the Auxiliary Text Translation Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.05782/) (2021)
- [ESPnet-SLU: Advancing Spoken Language Understanding through ESPnet](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.14706/) (2021)
- [Learning Shared Semantic Space for Speech-to-Text Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.03095/) (2021)
- [Stacked Acoustic-and-Textual Encoding: Integrating the Pre-trained Models into Speech Translation Encoders](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.05752/) (2021)
- [Fused Acoustic and Text Encoding for Multimodal Bilingual Pretraining and Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.05766/) (2021)
- [End-to-end Speech Translation via Cross-modal Progressive Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.10380/) (2021)
- [CTC-based Compression for Direct Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.01578/) (2021)
- [RealTranS: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation with Convolutional Weighted-Shrinking Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.04833/) (2021)
- [A3T: Alignment-Aware Acoustic and Text Pretraining for Speech Synthesis and Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.09690/) (2022)
- [Information-Transport-based Policy for Simultaneous Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.12357/) (2022)
- [An Exploration of Self-Supervised Pretrained Representations for End-to-End Speech Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.04590/) (2021)
- [AlignAtt: Using Attention-based Audio-Translation Alignments as a Guide for Simultaneous Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.11408/) (2023)
- [Learning When to Translate for Streaming Speech](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.07368/) (2021)
- [Source and Target Bidirectional Knowledge Distillation for End-to-end Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.06457/) (2021)
- [Wav2Seq: Pre-training Speech-to-Text Encoder-Decoder Models Using Pseudo Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.01086/) (2022)
- [Revisiting End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation From Scratch](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.04571/) (2022)
- [CTC Alignments Improve Autoregressive Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.05200/) (2022)
- [Pre-training for Speech Translation: CTC Meets Optimal Transport](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.11716/) (2023)
- [Searchable Hidden Intermediates for End-to-End Models of Decomposable Sequence Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.00573/) (2021)
- [Does Simultaneous Speech Translation need Simultaneous Models?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.03783/) (2022)
- [CMOT: Cross-modal Mixup via Optimal Transport for Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.14635/) (2023)
- [GigaST: A 10,000-hour Pseudo Speech Translation Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.03939/) (2022)
- [Hybrid Transducer and Attention based Encoder-Decoder Modeling for Speech-to-Text Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.03101/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present ESPnet-ST, which is designed for the quick development of speech-to-speech translation systems in a single framework. ESPnet-ST is a new project inside end-to-end speech processing toolkit, ESPnet, which integrates or newly implements automatic speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech functions for speech translation. We provide all-in-one recipes including data pre-processing, feature extraction, training, and decoding pipelines for a wide range of benchmark datasets. Our reproducible results can match or even outperform the current state-of-the-art performances; these pre-trained models are downloadable. The toolkit is publicly available at https://github.com/espnet/espnet.