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We introduce DiffuseST, a low-latency, direct speech-to-speech translation system capable of preserving the input speaker's voice zero-shot while translating from multiple source languages into English. We experiment with the synthesizer…

End-to-end speech translation aims to translate speech in one language into text in another language via an end-to-end way. Most existing methods employ an encoder-decoder structure with a single encoder to learn acoustic representation and…

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The success of building textless speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) models has attracted much attention. However, S2ST still faces two main challenges: 1) extracting linguistic features for various speech signals, called cross-modal (CM),…

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Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has gradually become popular as it has many advantages compared with cascade S2ST. However, current research mainly focuses on the accuracy of semantic translation and ignores the speech style…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Kun Song , Yi Ren , Yi Lei , Chunfeng Wang , Kun Wei , Lei Xie , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma

We present a direct simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (Simul-S2ST) model, Furthermore, the generation of translation is independent from intermediate text representations. Our approach leverages recent progress on direct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xutai Ma , Hongyu Gong , Danni Liu , Ann Lee , Yun Tang , Peng-Jen Chen , Wei-Ning Hsu , Phillip Koehn , Juan Pino

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) with discrete units leverages recent progress in speech representation learning. Specifically, a sequence of discrete representations derived in a self-supervised manner are predicted from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Rongjie Huang , Jinglin Liu , Huadai Liu , Yi Ren , Lichao Zhang , Jinzheng He , Zhou Zhao

While Diffusion Generative Models have achieved great success on image generation tasks, how to efficiently and effectively incorporate them into speech generation especially translation tasks remains a non-trivial problem. Specifically,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yongxin Zhu , Zhujin Gao , Xinyuan Zhou , Zhongyi Ye , Linli Xu

It has been known that direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) models usually suffer from the data scarcity issue because of the limited existing parallel materials for both source and target speech. Therefore to train a direct S2ST…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiatong Shi , Yun Tang , Ann Lee , Hirofumi Inaguma , Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Shinji Watanabe

Speech-aware language models (LMs) have demonstrated capabilities in understanding spoken language while generating text-based responses. However, enabling them to produce speech output efficiently and effectively remains a challenge. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Yuxuan Hu , Haibin Wu , Ruchao Fan , Xiaofei Wang , Heng Lu , Yao Qian , Jinyu Li

Research on speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has progressed rapidly in recent years. Many end-to-end systems have been proposed and show advantages over conventional cascade systems, which are often composed of recognition, translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Xinjian Li , Ye Jia , Chung-Cheng Chiu

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…

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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

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

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

End-to-end speech translation (ST), which directly translates from source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attentions in recent years. Compared to conventional pipeline systems, end-to-end ST models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Yuchen Liu , Hao Xiong , Zhongjun He , Jiajun Zhang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

Direct Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has drawn more and more attention recently. The task is very challenging due to data scarcity and complex speech-to-speech mapping. In this paper, we report our recent achievements in S2ST.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Qianqian Dong , Fengpeng Yue , Tom Ko , Mingxuan Wang , Qibing Bai , Yu Zhang

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-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

End-to-end simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) outputs translation while receiving the streaming speech inputs (a.k.a. streaming speech translation), and hence needs to segment the speech inputs and then translate based on the current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng

Speech-to-text translation (ST) is a cross-modal task that involves converting spoken language into text in a different language. Previous research primarily focused on enhancing speech translation by facilitating knowledge transfer from…

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