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Given the great success of large language models (LLMs) across various tasks, in this paper, we introduce LLM-ST, a novel and effective speech translation model constructed upon a pre-trained LLM. By integrating the large language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zhichao Huang , Rong Ye , Tom Ko , Qianqian Dong , Shanbo Cheng , Mingxuan Wang , Hang Li

Simultaneous speech-to-text translation (SimulST) translates source-language speech into target-language text concurrently with the speaker's speech, ensuring low latency for better user comprehension. Despite its intended application to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Sara Papi , Peter Polak , Ondřej Bojar , Dominik Macháček

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

Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) is the task in which output generation has to be performed on partial, incremental speech input. In recent years, SimulST has become popular due to the spread of cross-lingual application scenarios,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Sara Papi , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) is a challenging task aiming to translate streaming speech before the complete input is observed. A SimulST system generally includes two components: the pre-decision that aggregates the speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Chih-Chiang Chang , Hung-yi Lee

How to make human-interpreter-like read/write decisions for simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) systems? Current state-of-the-art systems formulate SimulST as a multi-turn dialogue task, requiring specialized interleaved training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Haotian Tan , Hiroki Ouchi , Sakriani Sakti

Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) is a demanding task that involves generating translations in real-time while continuously processing speech input. This paper offers a comprehensive overview of the recent developments in SimulST…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xiaoqian Liu , Guoqiang Hu , Yangfan Du , Erfeng He , Yingfeng Luo , Chen Xu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Simultaneous speech-to-text translation is widely useful in many scenarios. The conventional cascaded approach uses a pipeline of streaming ASR followed by simultaneous MT, but suffers from error propagation and extra latency. To alleviate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Junkun Chen , Mingbo Ma , Renjie Zheng , Liang Huang

End-to-end Speech Translation is hindered by a lack of available data resources. While most of them are based on documents, a sentence-level version is available, which is however single and static, potentially impeding the usefulness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Ioannis Tsiamas , José A. R. Fonollosa , Marta R. Costa-jussà

In simultaneous machine translation, the objective is to determine when to produce a partial translation given a continuous stream of source words, with a trade-off between latency and quality. We propose a neural machine translation (NMT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Patrick Wilken , Tamer Alkhouli , Evgeny Matusov , Pavel Golik

Using end-to-end models for speech translation (ST) has increasingly been the focus of the ST community. These models condense the previously cascaded systems by directly converting sound waves into translated text. However, cascaded models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Orion Weller , Matthias Sperber , Christian Gollan , Joris Kluivers

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

Whisper is one of the recent state-of-the-art multilingual speech recognition and translation models, however, it is not designed for real time transcription. In this paper, we build on top of Whisper and create Whisper-Streaming, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Dominik Macháček , Raj Dabre , Ondřej Bojar

Speech segmentation is an essential part of speech translation (ST) systems in real-world scenarios. Since most ST models are designed to process speech segments, long-form audio must be partitioned into shorter segments before translation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Jaesong Lee , Soyoon Kim , Hanbyul Kim , Joon Son Chung

In speech translation, leveraging multimodal data to improve model performance and address limitations of individual modalities has shown significant effectiveness. In this paper, we harness the complementary strengths of speech and text,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Wenbiao Yin , Zhicheng Liu , Chengqi Zhao , Tao Wang , Jian Tong , Rong Ye

In this paper, we introduce a large model-empowered streaming semantic communication system for speech transmission across various languages, named LSSC-ST. Specifically, we devise an edge-device collaborative semantic communication…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Neural transducers have been widely used in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we introduce it to streaming end-to-end speech translation (ST), which aims to convert audio signals to texts in other languages directly.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jian Xue , Peidong Wang , Jinyu Li , Matt Post , Yashesh Gaur

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

The growing need for instant spoken language transcription and translation is driven by increased global communication and cross-lingual interactions. This has made offering translations in multiple languages essential for user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sara Papi , Peidong Wang , Junkun Chen , Jian Xue , Naoyuki Kanda , Jinyu Li , Yashesh Gaur

For real-life applications, it is crucial that end-to-end spoken language translation models perform well on continuous audio, without relying on human-supplied segmentation. For online spoken language translation, where models need to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Chantal Amrhein , Barry Haddow