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Audio-LLMs enhance speech translation data filtering

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Researchers have developed a novel method using audio-large language models (Audio-LLMs) to filter noisy speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) training data. This approach employs a two-stage Rank-to-Distill strategy, where an initial ranker generates pseudo-labels for keeping or dropping speech pairs, which then train an Audio-LLM to make these decisions directly from audio. The model effectively captures acoustic fidelity and cross-lingual semantic consistency, leading to significant improvements in S2ST performance, with gains of up to +1.4 ASR-BLEU on benchmark datasets. AI

IMPACT Improves the quality of training data for speech translation models, potentially leading to more accurate and robust speech-to-speech translation systems.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a research paper published on arXiv detailing a new method for filtering training data for speech-to-speech translation.

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Audio-LLMs enhance speech translation data filtering

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Qixu Chen, Satoshi Nakamura ·

    Leveraging Audio-LLMs to Filter Speech-to-Speech Training Data

    arXiv:2606.13507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale mined corpora provide abundant training data for end-to-end speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) but may contain noise, misalignment, and semantic errors. Filtering noisy data is crucial to maintain robust speech translat…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Satoshi Nakamura ·

    Leveraging Audio-LLMs to Filter Speech-to-Speech Training Data

    Large-scale mined corpora provide abundant training data for end-to-end speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) but may contain noise, misalignment, and semantic errors. Filtering noisy data is crucial to maintain robust speech translation performance. We study how to train an audio-…

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