As the language industry turns to speech-to-speech translation, Facebook AI partners with “AI community” Hugging Face to release speech-to-text translation models for four languages. Continue reading
Zoom call add-ons planned for beta release in September 2021. Transcription available in 30 languages, and translation, in 12, by year-end 2022. Continue reading
Facebook sees textless natural language processing (NLP) as rendering automatic speech translation (ASR) obsolete by working in true end-to-end fashion: from speech input to speech output. Continue reading
Google researchers say Translatotron 2 outperforms original in terms of speech-to-speech translation quality and naturalness. Plus the new version prevents users from generating speech for deepfakes. Continue reading
Zoom acquires German simultaneous speech translation provider, Kites, to provide multilingual speech translation to Zoom users; explores opening R&D center in Germany. Continue reading
European Live Translator (ELITR) takes speech-to-speech translation one step further, backed by the academe, private sector, and government. Continue reading
Google researchers approach speech-to-speech translation a little differently in a proof-of-concept that completely takes away reference text, but underperforms compared to existing models. Continue reading
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