System and method for translating and transcribing

A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving speech in a source language to define source language speech;
• performing a first token-based transcription of the source language speech into text of the source language using a first look-ahead encoder to define source language text;
• and
• performing a first token-based translation of the source language speech into text of a target language using a second look-ahead encoder to define target language text;
• wherein performing a first token-based transcription of the source language speech into text of the source language using a first look-ahead encoder includes:
• utilizing a first neural network model to effectuate the first token-based transcription of the source language speech into text of the source language;
• wherein the first look-ahead encoder is smaller than the second look-ahead encoder.

A computing system including a processor and memory configured to perform operations comprising:

• receiving speech in a source language to define source language speech;
• performing a first token-based transcription of the source language speech into text of the source language using a first look-ahead encoder to define source language text;
• and
• performing a first token-based translation of the source language speech into text of a target language using a second look-ahead encoder to define target language text;
• wherein performing a first token-based translation of the source language speech into text of a target language using a second look-ahead encoder includes:
• utilizing a second neural network model to effectuate the first token-based translation of the source language speech into text of the target language;
• wherein the first look-ahead encoder is smaller than the second look-ahead encoder.