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The multi-decoder (MD) end-to-end speech translation model has demonstrated high translation quality by searching for better intermediate automatic speech recognition (ASR) decoder states as hidden intermediates (HI). It is a two-pass…

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In sequence-to-sequence Transformer ASR, autoregressive (AR) models achieve strong accuracy but suffer from slow decoding, while non-autoregressive (NAR) models enable parallel decoding at the cost of degraded performance. We propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Hao Yen , Pin-Jui Ku , Ante Jukić , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi

We present a direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) model that translates speech from one language to speech in another language without relying on intermediate text generation. We tackle the problem by first applying a self-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Ann Lee , Peng-Jen Chen , Changhan Wang , Jiatao Gu , Sravya Popuri , Xutai Ma , Adam Polyak , Yossi Adi , Qing He , Yun Tang , Juan Pino , Wei-Ning Hsu

We study the possibilities of building a non-autoregressive speech-to-text translation model using connectionist temporal classification (CTC), and use CTC-based automatic speech recognition as an auxiliary task to improve the performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Shun-Po Chuang , Yung-Sung Chuang , Chih-Chiang Chang , Hung-yi Lee

Recently, end-to-end automatic speech recognition models based on connectionist temporal classification (CTC) have achieved impressive results, especially when fine-tuned from wav2vec2.0 models. Due to the conditional independence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Keqi Deng , Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Long Ma , Gaofeng Cheng , Ji Xu , Pengyuan Zhang

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) models suffer from data scarcity issues as there exists little parallel S2ST data, compared to the amount of data available for conventional cascaded systems that consist of automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Sravya Popuri , Peng-Jen Chen , Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Yossi Adi , Jiatao Gu , Wei-Ning Hsu , Ann Lee

Transfer learning from high-resource languages is known to be an efficient way to improve end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for low-resource languages. Pre-trained or jointly trained encoder-decoder models, however, do not share…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Jiatao Gu

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) is a widely used approach for automatic speech recognition (ASR) that performs conditionally independent monotonic alignment. However for translation, CTC exhibits clear limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Brian Yan , Siddharth Dalmia , Yosuke Higuchi , Graham Neubig , Florian Metze , Alan W Black , Shinji Watanabe

Non-autoregressive Transformer is a promising text generation model. However, current non-autoregressive models still fall behind their autoregressive counterparts in translation quality. We attribute this accuracy gap to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yu Bao , Shujian Huang , Tong Xiao , Dongqi Wang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Attention-based encoder-decoder, e.g. transformer and its variants, generates the output sequence in an autoregressive (AR) manner. Despite its superior performance, AR model is computationally inefficient as its generation requires as many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Keyu An , Zerui Li , Zhifu Gao , Shiliang Zhang

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) with discrete self-supervised representations has achieved remarkable accuracy, but is unable to preserve the speaker timbre of the source speech. Meanwhile, the scarcity of high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yongqi Wang , Jionghao Bai , Rongjie Huang , Ruiqi Li , Zhiqing Hong , Zhou Zhao

Semantic parsing using sequence-to-sequence models allows parsing of deeper representations compared to traditional word tagging based models. In spite of these advantages, widespread adoption of these models for real-time conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Arun Babu , Akshat Shrivastava , Armen Aghajanyan , Ahmed Aly , Angela Fan , Marjan Ghazvininejad

We present Mask CTC, a novel non-autoregressive end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) framework, which generates a sequence by refining outputs of the connectionist temporal classification (CTC). Neural sequence-to-sequence models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Yosuke Higuchi , Shinji Watanabe , Nanxin Chen , Tetsuji Ogawa , Tetsunori Kobayashi

Speech-to-text errors made by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems negatively impact downstream models. Error correction models as a post-processing text editing method have been recently developed for refining the ASR outputs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ziji Zhang , Zhehui Wang , Rajesh Kamma , Sharanya Eswaran , Narayanan Sadagopan

Recent advances in deep learning show that end-to-end speech to text translation model is a promising approach to direct the speech translation field. In this work, we provide an overview of different end-to-end architectures, as well as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Parnia Bahar , Tobias Bieschke , Hermann Ney

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) is an attractive research topic with many advantages compared to cascaded S2ST. However, direct S2ST suffers from the data scarcity problem because the corpora from speech of the source language to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Kun Wei , Long Zhou , Ziqiang Zhang , Liping Chen , Shujie Liu , Lei He , Jinyu Li , Furu Wei

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

Autoregressive models have been widely used in unsupervised text style transfer. Despite their success, these models still suffer from the content preservation problem that they usually ignore part of the source sentence and generate some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fei Huang , Zikai Chen , Chen Henry Wu , Qihan Guo , Xiaoyan Zhu , Minlie Huang

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

Non-autoregressive (NAR) models can generate sentences with less computation than autoregressive models but sacrifice generation quality. Previous studies addressed this issue through iterative decoding. This study proposes using nearest…

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