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Large language models (LLMs), known for their exceptional reasoning capabilities, generalizability, and fluency across diverse domains, present a promising avenue for enhancing speech-related tasks. In this paper, we focus on integrating…

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In Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) systems, training with a simultaneous interpretation (SI) corpus is an effective method for achieving high-quality yet low-latency systems. However, it is very challenging to curate such a corpus…

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Given the great success of large language models (LLMs) across various tasks, in this paper, we introduce LLM-ST, a novel and effective speech translation model constructed upon a pre-trained LLM. By integrating the large language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zhichao Huang , Rong Ye , Tom Ko , Qianqian Dong , Shanbo Cheng , Mingxuan Wang , Hang Li

Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) generates translations while reading the source sentence, necessitating a policy to determine the optimal timing for reading and generating words. Despite the remarkable performance achieved by Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Shoutao Guo , Shaolei Zhang , Zhengrui Ma , Min Zhang , Yang Feng

Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) is a demanding task that involves generating translations in real-time while continuously processing speech input. This paper offers a comprehensive overview of the recent developments in SimulST…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xiaoqian Liu , Guoqiang Hu , Yangfan Du , Erfeng He , Yingfeng Luo , Chen Xu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved significant success in Speech-to-Text Translation (S2TT) tasks. While most existing research has focused on English-centric translation directions, the exploration of many-to-many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yexing Du , Youcheng Pan , Ziyang Ma , Bo Yang , Yifan Yang , Keqi Deng , Xie Chen , Yang Xiang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

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

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

Real-world simultaneous machine translation (SimulMT) systems face more challenges than just the quality-latency trade-off. They also need to address issues related to robustness with noisy input, processing long contexts, and flexibility…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Minghan Wang , Jinming Zhao , Thuy-Trang Vu , Fatemeh Shiri , Ehsan Shareghi , Gholamreza Haffari

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

Nowadays, training end-to-end neural models for spoken language translation (SLT) still has to confront with extreme data scarcity conditions. The existing SLT parallel corpora are indeed orders of magnitude smaller than those available for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their remarkable capabilities across various language tasks. Inspired by the success of text-to-text translation refinement, this paper investigates how LLMs can improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Huaixia Dou , Xinyu Tian , Xinglin Lyu , Jie Zhu , Junhui Li , Lifan Guo

End-to-end simultaneous speech translation (SST), which directly translates speech in one language into text in another language in real-time, is useful in many scenarios but has not been fully investigated. In this work, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Xingshan Zeng , Liangyou Li , Qun Liu

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 language models (SpeechLMs) accept speech input and produce speech output, allowing for more natural human-computer interaction compared to text-based large language models (LLMs). Traditional approaches for developing SpeechLMs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Aohan Zeng , Zhengxiao Du , Mingdao Liu , Lei Zhang , Shengmin Jiang , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang

Simultaneous speech translation (SST) aims to provide real-time translation of spoken language, even before the speaker finishes their sentence. Traditionally, SST has been addressed primarily by cascaded systems that decompose the task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peter Polák

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various language processing tasks, motivating their adoption in simultaneous translation. Current fine-tuning methods to adapt LLMs for simultaneous translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Matthew Raffel , Victor Agostinelli , Lizhong Chen

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved great success in Speech-to-Text Translation (S2TT) tasks. However, current research is constrained by two key challenges: language coverage and efficiency. Most of the popular S2TT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yexing Du , Kaiyuan Liu , Youcheng Pan , Bo Yang , Keqi Deng , Xie Chen , Yang Xiang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin , YaoWei Wang

This study introduces a groundbreaking approach to simultaneous interpretation by directly leveraging the predictive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). We present a novel algorithm that generates real-time translations by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Kurando Iida , Kenjiro Mimura , Nobuo Ito

Simultaneous machine translation (SMT) takes streaming input utterances and incrementally produces target text. Existing SMT methods mainly use the partial utterance that has already arrived at the input and the generated hypothesis.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Siqi Ouyang , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Zhehuai Chen , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Jagadeesh Balam , Lei Li , Boris Ginsburg