Modular Speech-to-Text Translation for Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Transfer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03724v1
• Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 17:44:37 GMT
• Title: Modular Speech-to-Text Translation for Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Transfer
• Authors: Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Holger Schwenk, Beno\^it Sagot
• Abstract summary: In this work, we show that this type of approach can be further improved with multilingual training. We observe significant improvements in zero-shot cross-modal speech translation, even outperforming a supervised approach based on XLSR for several languages.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recent research has shown that independently trained encoders and decoders, combined through a shared fixed-size representation, can achieve competitive performance in speech-to-text translation. In this work, we show that this type of approach can be further improved with multilingual training. We observe significant improvements in zero-shot cross-modal speech translation, even outperforming a supervised approach based on XLSR for several languages.

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