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New method enhances expressive speech-to-speech translation

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Researchers have introduced a novel training data construction strategy for expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST). This method combines professional dubbing with multilingual voice conversion to create parallel supervision that aligns source and target speech in content, prosody, timing, and speaker identity. The strategy was evaluated using existing S2ST systems and a newly developed end-to-end method called DirectS2ST. Experiments on English-German and English-Spanish demonstrated significant improvements in expressive realization across all evaluated systems, with DirectS2ST showing the most substantial gains. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more natural and expressive speech translation systems, improving cross-lingual communication.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Hao Zhang, Ismail Rasim Ulgen, Bismarck Bamfo Odoom, Rui Liu, Zihan Zhang, Berrak Sisman, Philipp Koehn ·

    Holistic Parallel Supervision for Expressive Speech to Speech Translation

    arXiv:2611.06010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expressiveness is central to speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), yet existing datasets rarely align source and target speech jointly in content, prosody, timing, and speaker identity. Consequently, current systems often rely on ind…

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