The TC-STAR project is envisaged as a long-term effort to advance research in all core technologies for Speech-to-Speech Translation (SST). SST technology is a combination of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Spoken Language Translation (SLT) and Text to Speech (TTS) (speech synthesis). The objectives of the project are ambitious: making a breakthrough in SST that significantly reduces the gap between human and machine translation performance. The project targets a selection of unconstrained conversational speech domains—speeches and broadcast news—and three languages: European English, European Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. Accurate translation of unrestricted speech is well beyond the capability of today’s state-of-the-art research systems. Therefore, advances are needed to improve the state-of the-art technologies for speech recognition and speech translation.
Our pick of the week by @DennisFucci: "Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language" by @linguisticshen, @Phonologician
@afraalishahi, @AriannaBisazza, and @gchrupala, NAACL 2024.
#Speech #SpokenLanguageModels #ToneEncoding #Interpretability #Phonology
⏳Hurry up! Only 4 days left to apply for a PhD position on “Resource-efficient Foundation Models for Automatic Translation” (A10). Don't miss this opportunity!
📅 Deadline: May 7, 4pm (CEST)
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#PhD #NLProc
Last on our power panel: none other than @HelenaMoniz5 🤩 President of @EAMTee and the International Association of Machine Translation. Currently Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Center for Responsible AI (https://centerforresponsible.ai/) with @Unbabel You don't want to miss this!
Our pick of the week by @beomseok_lee_: "UniverSLU: Universal Spoken Language Understanding for Diverse Tasks with Natural Language Instructions" by @Sid_Arora_18, @emonosuke, @pengyf21, @RoshanSSharma2, @shinjiw_at_cmu, et al., 2024.
#SLU #languageunderstanding #speech