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Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) translates speech from one language into another using a single model. However, due to the presence of linguistic and acoustic diversity, the target speech follows a complex multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Qingkai Fang , Yan Zhou , Yang Feng

Existing speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) models fall into two camps: they either leverage text as an intermediate step or require hundreds of hours of parallel speech data. Both approaches are incompatible with textless languages or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Anuj Diwan , Anirudh Srinivasan , David Harwath , Eunsol Choi

In this paper, we propose a textless acoustic model with a self-supervised distillation strategy for noise-robust expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST). Recently proposed expressive S2ST systems have achieved impressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Min-Jae Hwang , Ilia Kulikov , Benjamin Peloquin , Hongyu Gong , Peng-Jen Chen , Ann Lee

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

Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) refers to the conversion of speech in one language into semantically equivalent speech in another language, facilitating communication between speakers of different languages. Speech-to-Discrete Unit…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Rui Zhou , Akinori Ito , Takashi Nose

Recent Speech-to-Speech Translation (S2ST) systems achieve strong semantic accuracy yet consistently strip away non-verbal vocalizations (NVs), such as laughter and crying that convey pragmatic intent, which severely limits real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Szu-Chi Chen , I-Ning Tsai , Yi-Cheng Lin , Sung-Feng Huang , Hung-yi Lee

Speech-to-speech translation directly translates a speech utterance to another between different languages, and has great potential in tasks such as simultaneous interpretation. State-of-art models usually contains an auxiliary module for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Junhui Zhang , Junjie Pan , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

Speech-to-text translation pertains to the task of converting speech signals in a language to text in another language. It finds its application in various domains, such as hands-free communication, dictation, video lecture transcription,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Nivedita Sethiya , Chandresh Kumar Maurya

In today's interconnected globe, moving abroad is more and more prevalent, whether it's for employment, refugee resettlement, or other causes. Language difficulties between natives and immigrants present a common issue on a daily basis,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Khai Le-Duc

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which translates source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attention in recent years. Compared to the traditional pipeline system, the end-to-end ST model has potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuchen Liu , Jiajun Zhang , Hao Xiong , Long Zhou , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

Speech-to-text translation (ST), which directly translates the source language speech to the target language text, has attracted intensive attention recently. However, the combination of speech recognition and machine translation in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Qianqian Dong , Mingxuan Wang , Hao Zhou , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu , Lei Li

We introduces LLaST, a framework for building high-performance Large Language model based Speech-to-text Translation systems. We address the limitations of end-to-end speech translation(E2E ST) models by exploring model architecture design…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xi Chen , Songyang Zhang , Qibing Bai , Kai Chen , Satoshi Nakamura

Conventional speech-to-text translation (ST) systems are trained on single-speaker utterances, and they may not generalize to real-life scenarios where the audio contains conversations by multiple speakers. In this paper, we tackle…

Compositional speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) systems built upon speech large language models (SpeechLLMs) have recently shown promising performance. However, existing S2ST systems often either neglect source-language information or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yu Pan , Yang Hou , Xiongfei Wu , Liang Zhang , Yves Le Traon , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective framework for multilingual end-to-end speech translation (ST), in which speech utterances in source languages are directly translated to the desired target languages with a universal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Hirofumi Inaguma , Kevin Duh , Tatsuya Kawahara , Shinji Watanabe

Existing speech to speech translation systems heavily rely on the text of target language: they usually translate source language either to target text and then synthesize target speech from text, or directly to target speech with target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Chen Zhang , Xu Tan , Yi Ren , Tao Qin , Kejun Zhang , Tie-Yan Liu

This research investigates the Statistical Machine Translation approaches to translate speech in real time automatically. Such systems can be used in a pipeline with speech recognition and synthesis software in order to produce a real-time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Krzysztof Wołk , Krzysztof Marasek

Spoken language translation has recently witnessed a resurgence in popularity, thanks to the development of end-to-end models and the creation of new corpora, such as Augmented LibriSpeech and MuST-C. Existing datasets involve language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Anne Wu , Jiatao Gu

Expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) is a key research topic in seamless communication, which focuses on the preservation of semantics and speaker vocal style in translated speech. Early works synthesized speaker style aligned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Hongyu Gong , Bandhav Veluri

End-to-end speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) systems typically struggle with a critical data bottleneck: the scarcity of parallel speech-to-speech corpora. To overcome this, we introduce RosettaSpeech, a novel zero-shot framework trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Zhisheng Zheng , Xiaohang Sun , Tuan Dinh , Abhishek Yanamandra , Abhinav Jain , Zhu Liu , Sunil Hadap , Vimal Bhat , Manoj Aggarwal , Gerard Medioni , David Harwath