Seminar: Recent Advances in English-Vietnamese Text and Speech Translation

The last two decades have witnessed rapid economic growth in Vietnam which is now an attractive destination for trade and investment. Due to the language barrier, foreigners generally use automatic machine translation systems to translate Vietnamese speeches and texts into their native language or another language they are familiar with, usually the global language English, so they could quickly catch up with ongoing events in Vietnam. Thus the demand for high-quality English-Vietnamese text and speech translation has rapidly increased. In this talk, I will present the VinAI Translate system that translates text and speech between Vietnamese and English, obtaining state-of-the-art results in both automatic and human evaluations. I will also introduce PhoMT and PhoST, which are high-quality and large-scale datasets for English-Vietnamese text and speech translation, respectively.