Soft Language Identification for Language-Agnostic Many-to-One End-to-End Speech Translation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10276v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:39 GMT
• Title: Soft Language Identification for Language-Agnostic Many-to-One End-to-End Speech Translation
• Authors: Peidong Wang, Jian Xue, Jinyu Li, Junkun Chen, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian,
• Abstract summary: Many-to-one end-to-end speech translation models can convert audio signals from different source languages into text in a target language. In some cases, the input language can be given or estimated. We accomplish this by introducing a simple and effective linear input network.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Language-agnostic many-to-one end-to-end speech translation models can convert audio signals from different source languages into text in a target language. These models do not need source language identification, which improves user experience. In some cases, the input language can be given or estimated. Our goal is to use this additional language information while preserving the quality of the other languages. We accomplish this by introducing a simple and effective linear input network. The linear input network is initialized as an identity matrix, which ensures that the model can perform as well as, or better than, the original model. Experimental results show that the proposed method can successfully enhance the specified language, while keeping the language-agnostic ability of the many-to-one ST models.

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