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End-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, by now, have shown competitive performance on several benchmarks. These models are structured to either operate in streaming or non-streaming mode. This work presents cascaded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Arun Narayanan , Tara N. Sainath , Ruoming Pang , Jiahui Yu , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Ehsan Variani , Trevor Strohman

Simultaneous Machine Translation is the task of incrementally translating an input sentence before it is fully available. Currently, simultaneous translation is carried out by translating each sentence independently of the previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Javier Iranzo-Sánchez , Jorge Civera , Alfons Juan

Although recent advances in deep learning technology have boosted automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance in the single-talker case, it remains difficult to recognize multi-talker speech in which many voices overlap. One conventional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Takafumi Moriya , Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takahiro Shinozaki

Simultaneous text translation and end-to-end speech translation have recently made great progress but little work has combined these tasks together. We investigate how to adapt simultaneous text translation methods such as wait-k and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Xutai Ma , Juan Pino , Philipp Koehn

In end-to-end speech translation, acoustic representations learned by the encoder are usually fixed and static, from the perspective of the decoder, which is not desirable for dealing with the cross-modal and cross-lingual challenge in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Wuwei Huang , Dexin Wang , Deyi Xiong

End-to-end Speech-to-text Translation (E2E-ST), which directly translates source language speech to target language text, is widely useful in practice, but traditional cascaded approaches (ASR+MT) often suffer from error propagation in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Junkun Chen , Mingbo Ma , Renjie Zheng , Liang Huang

We introduce dual-decoder Transformer, a new model architecture that jointly performs automatic speech recognition (ASR) and multilingual speech translation (ST). Our models are based on the original Transformer architecture (Vaswani et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-21 Hang Le , Juan Pino , Changhan Wang , Jiatao Gu , Didier Schwab , Laurent Besacier

Simultaneous translation of unbounded streaming speech remains a challenging problem due to the need for effectively processing the history speech context and past translations so that quality and latency, including computation overhead,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Siqi Ouyang , Xi Xu , Lei Li

This paper presents a newly developed, simultaneous neural speech-to-speech translation system and its evaluation. The system consists of three fully-incremental neural processing modules for automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Katsuhito Sudoh , Takatomo Kano , Sashi Novitasari , Tomoya Yanagita , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Current simultaneous speech translation models can process audio only up to a few seconds long. Contemporary datasets provide an oracle segmentation into sentences based on human-annotated transcripts and translations. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Peter Polák , Ondřej Bojar

End-to-end simultaneous speech translation (SST), which directly translates speech in one language into text in another language in real-time, is useful in many scenarios but has not been fully investigated. In this work, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Xingshan Zeng , Liangyou Li , Qun Liu

End-to-end models for speech translation (ST) more tightly couple speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation (MT) than a traditional cascade of separate ASR and MT models, with simpler model architectures and the potential for reduced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Elizabeth Salesky , Alan W Black

Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) produces translations incrementally while processing partial speech input. Although large language models (LLMs) have showcased strong capabilities in offline translation tasks, applying them to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Biao Fu , Donglei Yu , Minpeng Liao , Chengxi Li , Yidong Chen , Kai Fan , Xiaodong Shi

End-to-end Speech Translation (ST) models have several advantages such as lower latency, smaller model size, and less error compounding over conventional pipelines that combine Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and text Machine Translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Sathish Indurthi , Houjeung Han , Nikhil Kumar Lakumarapu , Beomseok Lee , Insoo Chung , Sangha Kim , Chanwoo Kim

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of single channel far-field recordings with an unknown number of speakers is traditionally tackled by cascaded modules. Recent research shows that end-to-end (E2E) multi-speaker ASR models can achieve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Ilya Sklyar , Anna Piunova , Xianrui Zheng , Yulan Liu

Achieving high accuracy with low latency has always been a challenge in streaming end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. By attending to more future contexts, a streaming ASR model achieves higher accuracy but results in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Huaibo Zhao , Yosuke Higuchi , Yusuke Kida , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi

Recently, speech-to-text translation has attracted more and more attention and many studies have emerged rapidly. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on direct speech translation aiming to summarize the current state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chen Xu , Rong Ye , Qianqian Dong , Chengqi Zhao , Tom Ko , Mingxuan Wang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Attention-based sequence-to-sequence modeling provides a powerful and elegant solution for applications that need to map one sequence to a different sequence. Its success heavily relies on the availability of large amounts of training data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Yun Tang , Juan Pino , Changhan Wang , Xutai Ma , Dmitriy Genzel

Simultaneous speech-to-speech translation is widely useful but extremely challenging, since it needs to generate target-language speech concurrently with the source-language speech, with only a few seconds delay. In addition, it needs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Renjie Zheng , Mingbo Ma , Baigong Zheng , Kaibo Liu , Jiahong Yuan , Kenneth Church , Liang Huang

Streaming Machine Translation (MT) is the task of translating an unbounded input text stream in real-time. The traditional cascade approach, which combines an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and an MT system, relies on an intermediate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Javier Iranzo-Sánchez , Jorge Iranzo-Sánchez , Adrià Giménez , Jorge Civera , Alfons Juan