Is Google's New Lingvo Framework a Big Deal for Machine Translation? Slator

Researchers in neural machine translation (NMT) and natural language processing (NLP) may want to keep an eye on a new framework from Google. Lingvo is specifically tailored toward sequence models and NLP, which includes speech recognition, language understanding, MT, and speech translation. The Google AI team claims there are already "dozens" of research papers in these areas based on Lingvo. In fact, they said this was one reason they decided to open-source the project: to support the research community and encourage reproducible results. Lingvo supports multiple neural network architectures -- from recurrent neural nets to Transformer models -- and comes with lots of documentation on common implementations across different tasks (i.e., NLP, NMT, speech synthesis).