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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

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 Translation (ST) is the task of translating speech in one language into text in another language. Traditional cascaded approaches for ST, using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT) systems, are prone to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Tu Anh Dinh

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

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

End-to-end models for speech translation (ST) more tightly couple speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation (MT) than a traditional cascade of separate ASR and MT models, with simpler model architectures and the potential for reduced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Elizabeth Salesky , Alan W Black

We introduce CVSS, a massively multilingual-to-English speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) corpus, covering sentence-level parallel S2ST pairs from 21 languages into English. CVSS is derived from the Common Voice speech corpus and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ye Jia , Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich , Quan Wang , Heiga Zen

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), in which all components are trained jointly, is an attractive alternative to cascaded systems because it offers a simpler pipeline and lower inference latency. However, direct S2ST models require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sina Rashidi , Hossein Sameti

We present Translatotron 2, a neural direct speech-to-speech translation model that can be trained end-to-end. Translatotron 2 consists of a speech encoder, a linguistic decoder, an acoustic synthesizer, and a single attention module that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ye Jia , Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich , Tal Remez , Roi Pomerantz

There have been emerging research interest and advances in speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), translating utterances from one language to another. This work proposes Multitask Speech Language Model (MSLM), which is a decoder-only speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yifan Peng , Ilia Kulikov , Yilin Yang , Sravya Popuri , Hui Lu , Changhan Wang , Hongyu Gong

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), in which all components can be optimized jointly, is advantageous over cascaded approaches to achieve fast inference with a simplified pipeline. We present a novel two-pass direct S2ST…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hirofumi Inaguma , Sravya Popuri , Ilia Kulikov , Peng-Jen Chen , Changhan Wang , Yu-An Chung , Yun Tang , Ann Lee , Shinji Watanabe , Juan Pino

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

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

Speech-to-Text Translation (S2TT) has typically been addressed with cascade systems, where speech recognition systems generate a transcription that is subsequently passed to a translation model. While there has been a growing interest in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Giulio Zhou , Tsz Kin Lam , Alexandra Birch , Barry Haddow

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has achieved impressive translation quality, but it often faces the challenge of slow decoding due to the considerable length of speech sequences. Recently, some research has turned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Qingkai Fang , Zhengrui Ma , Yan Zhou , Min Zhang , Yang Feng

A cascaded speech translation model relies on discrete and non-differentiable transcription, which provides a supervision signal from the source side and helps the transformation between source speech and target text. Such modeling suffers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Parnia Bahar , Tobias Bieschke , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

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-to-speech translation (Simul-S2ST, a.k.a streaming speech translation) outputs target speech while receiving streaming speech inputs, which is critical for real-time communication. Beyond accomplishing translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shaolei Zhang , Qingkai Fang , Shoutao Guo , Zhengrui Ma , Min Zhang , Yang Feng

Recently, speech-to-text translation has attracted more and more attention and many studies have emerged rapidly. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on direct speech translation aiming to summarize the current state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chen Xu , Rong Ye , Qianqian Dong , Chengqi Zhao , Tom Ko , Mingxuan Wang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Real-time speech-to-speech (S2S) models excel at generating natural, low-latency conversational responses but often lack deep knowledge and semantic understanding. Conversely, cascaded systems combining automatic speech recognition, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 So Kuroki , Yotaro Kubo , Takuya Akiba , Yujin Tang