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Simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (SimulS2S) is essential for real-time multilingual communication, with increasing integration into meeting and streaming platforms. Despite this, SimulS2S remains underexplored in research, where…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Amirbek Djanibekov , Luisa Bentivogli , Matteo Negri , Sara Papi

Simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) holds the promise of breaking down communication barriers and enabling fluid conversations across languages. However, achieving accurate, real-time translation through mobile devices remains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Alex Agranovich , Eliya Nachmani , Oleg Rybakov , Yifan Ding , Ye Jia , Nadav Bar , Heiga Zen , Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich

Simultaneous speech translation (SST) takes streaming speech input and generates text translation on the fly. Existing methods either have high latency due to recomputation of input representations, or fall behind of offline ST in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Siqi Ouyang , Xi Xu , Chinmay Dandekar , Lei Li

Streaming speech-to-text translation (StreamST) is the task of automatically translating speech while incrementally receiving an audio stream. Unlike simultaneous ST (SimulST), which deals with pre-segmented speech, StreamST faces the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sara Papi , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli

How to find proper moments to generate partial sentence translation given a streaming speech input? Existing approaches waiting-and-translating for a fixed duration often break the acoustic units in speech, since the boundaries between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Qianqian Dong , Yaoming Zhu , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li

Simultaneous translation involves translating a sentence before the speaker's utterance is completed in order to realize real-time understanding in multiple languages. This task is significantly more challenging than the general full…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Aizhan Imankulova , Masahiro Kaneko , Tosho Hirasawa , Mamoru Komachi

NeurST is an open-source toolkit for neural speech translation. The toolkit mainly focuses on end-to-end speech translation, which is easy to use, modify, and extend to advanced speech translation research and products. NeurST aims at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Chengqi Zhao , Mingxuan Wang , Qianqian Dong , Rong Ye , Lei Li

Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) systems aim at generating their output with the lowest possible latency, which is normally computed in terms of Average Lagging (AL). In this paper we highlight that, despite its widespread…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Sara Papi , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

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

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

Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on speech translation tasks. However, the model architecture is not efficient enough for streaming scenarios since self-attention is computed over an entire input sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Xutai Ma , Yongqiang Wang , Mohammad Javad Dousti , Philipp Koehn , Juan Pino

This paper introduces a cross-lingual dubbing system that translates speech from one language to another while preserving key characteristics such as duration, speaker identity, and speaking speed. Despite the strong translation quality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jeongsoo Choi , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

Recent work in speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has focused primarily on offline settings, where the full input utterance is available before any output is given. This, however, is not reasonable in many real-world scenarios. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Liam Dugan , Anshul Wadhawan , Kyle Spence , Chris Callison-Burch , Morgan McGuire , Victor Zordan

Simultaneous machine translation has recently gained traction thanks to significant quality improvements and the advent of streaming applications. Simultaneous translation systems need to find a trade-off between translation quality and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Javier Iranzo-Sánchez , Jorge Civera , Alfons Juan

Multimodal machine translation involves drawing information from more than one modality, based on the assumption that the additional modalities will contain useful alternative views of the input data. The most prominent tasks in this area…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Umut Sulubacak , Ozan Caglayan , Stig-Arne Grönroos , Aku Rouhe , Desmond Elliott , Lucia Specia , Jörg Tiedemann

In this paper, we describe our end-to-end multilingual speech translation system submitted to the IWSLT 2021 evaluation campaign on the Multilingual Speech Translation shared task. Our system is built by leveraging transfer learning across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yun Tang , Hongyu Gong , Xian Li , Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Holger Schwenk , Naman Goyal

Simultaneous translation (ST) outputs translation while receiving the source inputs, and hence requires a policy to determine whether to translate a target token or wait for the next source token. The major challenge of ST is that each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng

Simultaneous speech-to-text translation (Simul-S2TT) aims to translate speech into target text in real time, outputting translations while receiving source speech input, rather than waiting for the entire utterance to be spoken. Simul-S2TT…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Pei Zhang , Yiming Wang , Jialong Tang , Baosong Yang , Rui Wang , Derek F. Wong , Fei Huang

In this paper, we present Cross Language Agent -- Simultaneous Interpretation, CLASI, a high-quality and human-like Simultaneous Speech Translation (SiST) System. Inspired by professional human interpreters, we utilize a novel data-driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Shanbo Cheng , Zhichao Huang , Tom Ko , Hang Li , Ningxin Peng , Lu Xu , Qini Zhang

Sign Language Translation (SLT) aims to automatically convert visual sign language videos into spoken language text and vice versa. While recent years have seen rapid progress, the true sources of performance improvements often remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan , Jian He Low , Sobhan Asasi , Richard Bowden