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How to achieve better end-to-end speech translation (ST) by leveraging (text) machine translation (MT) data? Among various existing techniques, multi-task learning is one of the effective ways to share knowledge between ST and MT in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Qingkai Fang , Yang Feng

Designers of statistical machine translation (SMT) systems have begun to employ tree-structured translation models. Systems involving tree-structured translation models tend to be complex. This article aims to reduce the conceptual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 I. Dan Melamed , Wei Wang

Despite the success of neural machine translation (NMT), simultaneous neural machine translation (SNMT), the task of translating in real time before a full sentence has been observed, remains challenging due to the syntactic structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yun Chen , Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Xiao Chen , Qun Liu

Punctuated text prediction is crucial for automatic speech recognition as it enhances readability and impacts downstream natural language processing tasks. In streaming scenarios, the ability to predict punctuation in real-time is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Hanbyul Kim , Seunghyun Seo , Lukas Lee , Seolki Baek

The primary objective of simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) is to minimize latency while preserving the quality of the final translation. Drawing inspiration from CPU branch prediction techniques, we propose incorporating branch…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Aoxiong Yin , Tianyun Zhong , Haoyuan Li , Siliang Tang , Zhou Zhao

Recent advances have demonstrated the potential of decoderonly large language models (LLMs) for automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, enabling streaming recognition within this framework remains a challenge. In this work, we propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Genshun Wan , Wenhui Zhang , Jing-Xuan Zhang , Shifu Xiong , Jianqing Gao , Zhongfu Ye

Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) requires high-quality translations under strict real-time constraints, which traditional policies with only READ/WRITE actions cannot fully address. We extend the action space of SiMT with four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Qianen Zhang , Zeyu Yang , Satoshi Nakamura

Neural machine translation (NMT) takes deterministic sequences for source representations. However, either word-level or subword-level segmentations have multiple choices to split a source sequence with different word segmentors or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Fengshun Xiao , Jiangtong Li , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen

Document-level machine translation incorporates inter-sentential dependencies into the translation of a source sentence. In this paper, we propose a new framework to model cross-sentence dependencies by training neural machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Pei Zhang , Xu Zhang , Wei Chen , Jian Yu , Yanfeng Wang , Deyi Xiong

In real-world applications, users often require both translations and transcriptions of speech to enhance their comprehension, particularly in streaming scenarios where incremental generation is necessary. This paper introduces a streaming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sara Papi , Peidong Wang , Junkun Chen , Jian Xue , Jinyu Li , Yashesh Gaur

We propose a method of segmenting long-form speech by separating semantically complete sentences within the utterance. This prevents the ASR decoder from needlessly processing faraway context while also preventing it from missing relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 W. Ronny Huang , Hao Zhang , Shankar Kumar , Shuo-yiin Chang , Tara N. Sainath

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) models are trained to strike a balance between latency and translation quality. However, training these models to achieve high quality while maintaining low latency often leads to a tendency for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhengrui Ma , Shaolei Zhang , Shoutao Guo , Chenze Shao , Min Zhang , Yang Feng

Machine translation systems are conventionally trained on textual resources that do not model phenomena that occur in spoken language. While the evaluation of neural machine translation systems on textual inputs is actively researched in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Nicholas Ruiz , Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Nicola Bertoldi , Marcello Federico

A popular approach to streaming speech translation is to employ a single offline model with a wait-k policy to support different latency requirements, which is simpler than training multiple online models with different latency constraints.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Biao Fu , Minpeng Liao , Kai Fan , Zhongqiang Huang , Boxing Chen , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation (StreamST) requires producing translations concurrently with incoming speech, imposing strict latency constraints and demanding models that balance partial-information decision-making with high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Marco Gaido , Sara Papi , Mauro Cettolo , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli

While modern machine translation has relied on large parallel corpora, a recent line of work has managed to train Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems from monolingual corpora only (Artetxe et al., 2018c; Lample et al., 2018). Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre

Through the development of neural machine translation, the quality of machine translation systems has been improved significantly. By exploiting advancements in deep learning, systems are now able to better approximate the complex mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Jan Niehues , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Thanh-Le Ha , Matthias Sperber , Alex Waibel

Existing zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) systems are typically designed to process complete sentences and are constrained by the maximum duration for which they have been trained. However, in many streaming applications, texts arrive…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Trung Dang , David Aponte , Dung Tran , Tianyi Chen , Kazuhito Koishida

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

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Dzmitry Bahdanau , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio