High-Quality, Robust and Responsible Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation

Posted by Ye Jia and Michelle Tadmor Ramanovich, Software Engineers, Google Research Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) is key to breaking down language barriers between people all over the world. Automatic S2ST systems are typically composed of a cascade of speech recognition, machine translation, and speech synthesis subsystems. However, such cascade systems may suffer from longer latency, loss of information (especially paralinguistic and non-linguistic information), and compounding errors b...

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