同时翻译系统在处理输入流中的部分源句子时开始产生输出。这些系统需要决定何时读取更多输入以及何时编写输出。这些决定取决于源/目标语言的结构以及部分输入序列中包含的信息。因此，读/写决策策略在不同的输入方式（即语音和文本）中保持不变。这激发了我们利用与语音输入相对应的文本成绩单，以改善同时的语音到文本翻译（Simulst）。我们建议通过同时使用文本到文本翻译（SIMULMT）任务来改善Simulst系统的决策政策，以改善Simulst系统的决策政策。我们还将几种技术从离线语音翻译域扩展，以探索Simulmt任务在改善Simulst性能中的作用。总体而言，我们在不同的延迟制度（ENDE）SIMULST任务的不同延迟制度中取得了34.66％ / 4.5 BLEU的改进。

我们提出了直接同时的语音转换（SIMUL-S2ST）模型，此外，翻译的产生与中间文本表示无关。我们的方法利用了最近与离散单位直接语音转换的最新进展，其中从模型中预测了一系列离散表示，而不是连续频谱图特征，而不是以无监督的方式学习，并直接传递给语音的声码器综合在一起。我们还介绍了变分单调的多口语注意力（V-MMA），以处理语音同声翻译中效率低效的政策学习的挑战。然后，同时策略在源语音特征和目标离散单元上运行。我们开展实证研究，比较级联和直接方法对Fisher西班牙语 - 英语和必需的英语西班牙语数据集。直接同步模型显示通过在翻译质量和延迟之间实现更好的权衡来优于级联模型。

本文介绍了流媒体和非流定向晶体翻译的统一端到端帧工作。虽然非流媒体语音翻译的培训配方已经成熟，但尚未建立流媒体传播的食谱。在这项工作中，WEFOCUS在开发一个统一的模型（UNIST），它从基本组成部分的角度支持流媒体和非流媒体ST，包括培训目标，注意机制和解码政策。对最流行的语音到文本翻译基准数据集，MERE-C的实验表明，与媒体ST的BLEU评分和延迟度量有更好的折衷和液化标准端到端基线和级联模型。我们将公开提供我们的代码和评估工具。

The study of the attention mechanism has sparked interest in many fields, such as language modeling and machine translation. Although its patterns have been exploited to perform different tasks, from neural network understanding to textual alignment, no previous work has analysed the encoder-decoder attention behavior in speech translation (ST) nor used it to improve ST on a specific task. In this paper, we fill this gap by proposing an attention-based policy (EDAtt) for simultaneous ST (SimulST) that is motivated by an analysis of the existing attention relations between audio input and textual output. Its goal is to leverage the encoder-decoder attention scores to guide inference in real time. Results on en->{de, es} show that the EDAtt policy achieves overall better results compared to the SimulST state of the art, especially in terms of computational-aware latency.

End-to-end Speech Translation (E2E ST) aims to translate source speech into target translation without generating the intermediate transcript. However, existing approaches for E2E ST degrade considerably when only limited ST data are available. We observe that an ST model's performance strongly correlates with its embedding similarity from speech and transcript. In this paper, we propose Word-Aligned COntrastive learning (WACO), a novel method for few-shot speech-to-text translation. Our key idea is bridging word-level representations for both modalities via contrastive learning. We evaluate WACO and other methods on the MuST-C dataset, a widely used ST benchmark. Our experiments demonstrate that WACO outperforms the best baseline methods by 0.7-8.5 BLEU points with only 1-hour parallel data. Code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/WACO .

神经传感器已被广泛用于自动语音识别（ASR）。在本文中，我们将其介绍给流端到端语音翻译（ST），该语音旨在将音频信号直接转换为其他语言的文本。与执行ASR之后的级联ST相比，基于文本的机器翻译（MT），拟议的变压器传感器（TT）基于ST模型大大降低了推理潜伏期，利用语音信息并避免了从ASR到MT的错误传播。为了提高建模能力，我们提出了TT中联合网络的注意集合。此外，我们将基于TT的ST扩展到多语言ST，该ST同时生成多种语言的文本。大规模5万（k）小时的伪标记训练集的实验结果表明，基于TT的ST不仅显着减少了推理时间，而且还优于非流式级联ST进行英语 - 德语翻译。

直接语音到语音翻译（S2ST）模型与传统级联系统可用的数据量相比，几乎没有平行的S2ST数据遇到数据稀缺问题，该数据包括自动语音识别（ASR），机器翻译（MT）和文本到语音（TTS）合成。在这项工作中，我们使用未标记的语音数据和数据扩展来探索自我监督的预训练，以解决此问题。我们利用了最近提出的语音到单位翻译（S2UT）框架，该框架将目标语音编码为离散表示形式，并转移前训练前和有效的部分填充技术，可很好地适用于语音到文本翻译（S2T）通过研究语音编码器和离散单位解码器预训练，S2UT域。我们在西班牙语 - 英语翻译上进行的实验表明，与多任务学习相比，自我监督的预训练始终如一地提高模型性能，平均为6.6-12.1 BLEU增长，并且可以与数据增强技术相结合，以应用MT来创建弱监督监督的培训数据。音频样本可在以下网址获得：https：//facebookresearch.github.io/speech_translation/enhanced_direct_s2st_units/index.html。

Speech translation (ST) is the task of directly translating acoustic speech signals in a source language into text in a foreign language. ST task has been addressed, for a long time, using a pipeline approach with two modules : first an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) in the source language followed by a text-to-text Machine translation (MT). In the past few years, we have seen a paradigm shift towards the end-to-end approaches using sequence-to-sequence deep neural network models. This paper presents our efforts towards the development of the first Broadcast News end-to-end Arabic to English speech translation system. Starting from independent ASR and MT LDC releases, we were able to identify about 92 hours of Arabic audio recordings for which the manual transcription was also translated into English at the segment level. These data was used to train and compare pipeline and end-to-end speech translation systems under multiple scenarios including transfer learning and data augmentation techniques.

To alleviate the data scarcity problem in End-to-end speech translation (ST), pre-training on data for speech recognition and machine translation is considered as an important technique. However, the modality gap between speech and text prevents the ST model from efficiently inheriting knowledge from the pre-trained models. In this work, we propose AdaTranS for end-to-end ST. It adapts the speech features with a new shrinking mechanism to mitigate the length mismatch between speech and text features by predicting word boundaries. Experiments on the MUST-C dataset demonstrate that AdaTranS achieves better performance than the other shrinking-based methods, with higher inference speed and lower memory usage. Further experiments also show that AdaTranS can be equipped with additional alignment losses to further improve performance.

The black-box nature of end-to-end speech translation (E2E ST) systems makes it difficult to understand how source language inputs are being mapped to the target language. To solve this problem, we would like to simultaneously generate automatic speech recognition (ASR) and ST predictions such that each source language word is explicitly mapped to a target language word. A major challenge arises from the fact that translation is a non-monotonic sequence transduction task due to word ordering differences between languages -- this clashes with the monotonic nature of ASR. Therefore, we propose to generate ST tokens out-of-order while remembering how to re-order them later. We achieve this by predicting a sequence of tuples consisting of a source word, the corresponding target words, and post-editing operations dictating the correct insertion points for the target word. We examine two variants of such operation sequences which enable generation of monotonic transcriptions and non-monotonic translations from the same speech input simultaneously. We apply our approach to offline and real-time streaming models, demonstrating that we can provide explainable translations without sacrificing quality or latency. In fact, the delayed re-ordering ability of our approach improves performance during streaming. As an added benefit, our method performs ASR and ST simultaneously, making it faster than using two separate systems to perform these tasks.

同时语音转换（Simulst）是必须在部分，增量语音输入上执行输出生成的任务。近年来，由于交叉语言应用场景的传播，如国际现场会议和流媒体讲座，Sumulst已经变得很受欢迎，因为在飞行的语音翻译中可以促进用户访问视听内容。在本文中，我们分析到目前为止所开发的Simulst系统的特征，讨论其优势和缺点。然后我们专注于正确评估系统效率所需的评估框架。为此，我们提高了更广泛的性能分析的需求，还包括用户体验的角度。实际上，Simulst Systems不仅应在质量/延迟措施方面进行评估，而且还可以通过以任务为导向的指标计费，例如，用于所采用的可视化策略。鉴于此，我们突出了社区实现的目标以及仍然缺少的目标。

本文介绍了我们针对IWSLT 2022离线任务的端到端Yitrans语音翻译系统的提交，该任务从英语音频转换为德语，中文和日语。 Yitrans系统建立在大规模训练的编码器模型上。更具体地说，我们首先设计了多阶段的预训练策略，以建立具有大量标记和未标记数据的多模式模型。然后，我们为下游语音翻译任务微调模型的相应组件。此外，我们做出了各种努力，以提高性能，例如数据过滤，数据增强，语音细分，模型集合等。实验结果表明，我们的Yitrans系统比在三个翻译方向上的强基线取得了显着改进，并且比去年在TST2021英语 - 德国人中的最佳端到端系统方面的改进+5.2 BLEU改进。根据自动评估指标，我们的最终意见在英语 - 德国和英语端到端系统上排名第一。我们使代码和模型公开可用。

We present a method for introducing a text encoder into pre-trained end-to-end speech translation systems. It enhances the ability of adapting one modality (i.e., source-language speech) to another (i.e., source-language text). Thus, the speech translation model can learn from both unlabeled and labeled data, especially when the source-language text data is abundant. Beyond this, we present a denoising method to build a robust text encoder that can deal with both normal and noisy text data. Our system sets new state-of-the-arts on the MuST-C En-De, En-Fr, and LibriSpeech En-Fr tasks.

端到端的语音到语音翻译（S2ST）而不依赖中间文本表示是一个快速新兴的研究领域。最近的作品表明，这种直接S2ST系统的性能正在接近常规级联S2ST时，在可比较的数据集中进行了培训。但是，实际上，直接S2ST的性能受到配对S2ST培训数据的可用性。在这项工作中，我们探索了多种方法，用于利用更广泛的无监督和弱监督的语音和文本数据，以改善基于Translatotron 2的直接S2ST的性能2.使用我们最有效的方法，我们的最有效的方法是21号直接S2ST的平均翻译质量与没有其他数据的先前最新的训练相比，CVSS-C语料库上的语言对改善了+13.6 BLEU（OR +113％）。低资源语言的改进更加显着（平均+398％）。我们的比较研究表明，S2ST和语音表示学习的未来研究方向。

由于其误差传播，延迟较少和更少的参数较少的潜力，端到端语音到文本翻译〜（e2e-st）变得越来越受欢迎。鉴于三联培训语料库$ \ langle演讲，转录，翻译\ rangle $，传统的高质量E2E-ST系统利用$ \ langle演讲，转录\ rangle $配对预先培训模型，然后利用$ \ Langle演讲，翻译\ rangle $配对进一步优化它。然而，该过程仅涉及每个阶段的两个元组数据，并且该松散耦合不能完全利用三重态数据之间的关联。在本文中，我们试图基于语音输入模拟转录和翻译的联合概率，以直接利用这种三重态数据。基于此，我们提出了一种新的正规化方法，用于改进三重态数据中双路分解协议的模型培训，理论上应该是相等的。为实现这一目标，我们将两个Kullback-Leibler发散正规化术语介绍到模型培训目的中，以减少双路径输出概率之间的不匹配。然后，训练有素的模型可以通过预定义的早期停止标签自然地被视为E2E-ST模型。 Must-C基准测试的实验表明，我们所提出的方法在所有8个语言对上显着优于最先进的E2E-ST基线，同时在自动语音识别任务中实现更好的性能。我们的代码在https://github.com/duyichao/e2e -st-tda开放。

最近，多模式机器翻译（MMT）的研究激增，其中其他模式（例如图像）用于提高文本系统的翻译质量。这种多模式系统的特殊用途是同时机器翻译的任务，在该任务中，已证明视觉上下文可以补充源句子提供的部分信息，尤其是在翻译的早期阶段。在本文中，我们提出了第一个基于变压器的同时MMT体系结构，该体系结构以前尚未在现场探索过。此外，我们使用辅助监督信号扩展了该模型，该信号使用标记的短语区域比对来指导其视觉注意机制。我们在三个语言方向上进行全面的实验，并使用自动指标和手动检查进行彻底的定量和定性分析。我们的结果表明，（i）监督视觉注意力一致地提高了MMT模型的翻译质量，并且（ii）通过监督损失对MMT进行微调，比从SCRATCH训练MMT的MMT可以提高性能。与最先进的模型相比，我们提出的模型可实现多达2.3 bleu和3.5 Meteor点的改善。

How to solve the data scarcity problem for end-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST)? It's well known that data augmentation is an efficient method to improve performance for many tasks by enlarging the dataset. In this paper, we propose Mix at three levels for Speech Translation (M^3ST) method to increase the diversity of the augmented training corpus. Specifically, we conduct two phases of fine-tuning based on a pre-trained model using external machine translation (MT) data. In the first stage of fine-tuning, we mix the training corpus at three levels, including word level, sentence level and frame level, and fine-tune the entire model with mixed data. At the second stage of fine-tuning, we take both original speech sequences and original text sequences in parallel into the model to fine-tune the network, and use Jensen-Shannon divergence to regularize their outputs. Experiments on MuST-C speech translation benchmark and analysis show that M^3ST outperforms current strong baselines and achieves state-of-the-art results on eight directions with an average BLEU of 29.9.

Data scarcity is one of the main issues with the end-to-end approach for Speech Translation, as compared to the cascaded one. Although most data resources for Speech Translation are originally document-level, they offer a sentence-level view, which can be directly used during training. But this sentence-level view is single and static, potentially limiting the utility of the data. Our proposed data augmentation method SegAugment challenges this idea and aims to increase data availability by providing multiple alternative sentence-level views of a dataset. Our method heavily relies on an Audio Segmentation system to re-segment the speech of each document, after which we obtain the target text with alignment methods. The Audio Segmentation system can be parameterized with different length constraints, thus giving us access to multiple and diverse sentence-level views for each document. Experiments in MuST-C show consistent gains across 8 language pairs, with an average increase of 2.2 BLEU points, and up to 4.7 BLEU for lower-resource scenarios in mTEDx. Additionally, we find that SegAugment is also applicable to purely sentence-level data, as in CoVoST, and that it enables Speech Translation models to completely close the gap between the gold and automatic segmentation at inference time.

同时翻译，它在仅在源句中只收到几个单词后开始翻译每个句子，在许多情况下都具有重要作用。虽然以前的前缀到前缀框架被认为适合同时翻译并实现良好的性能，但它仍然有两个不可避免的缺点：由于需要为每个延迟的单独模型训练单独模型而导致的高计算资源成本$ k $和不足能够编码信息，因为每个目标令牌只能参加特定的源前缀。我们提出了一种新颖的框架，采用简单但有效的解码策略，该策略专为全句型而设计。在此框架内，培训单个全句型模型可以实现任意给出的延迟并节省计算资源。此外，随着全句型模型的能力来编码整个句子，我们的解码策略可以在实时增强在解码状态中保持的信息。实验结果表明，我们的方法在4个方向上的基准方向达到了更好的翻译质量：Zh $ \ lightarrow $ en，en $ \ lightarrow $ ro和en $ \ leftrightarrow $ de。

最先进的编码器模型（例如，用于机器翻译（MT）或语音识别（ASR））作为原子单元构造并端到端训练。没有其他模型的任何组件都无法（重新）使用。我们描述了Legonn，这是一种使用解码器模块构建编码器架构的过程，可以在各种MT和ASR任务中重复使用，而无需进行任何微调。为了实现可重复性，每个编码器和解码器模块之间的界面都基于模型设计器预先定义的离散词汇，将其接地到边缘分布序列。我们提出了两种摄入这些边缘的方法。一个是可区分的，可以使整个网络的梯度流动，另一个是梯度分离的。为了使MT任务之间的解码器模块的可移植性用于不同的源语言和其他任务（例如ASR），我们引入了一种模态不可思议的编码器，该模态编码器由长度控制机制组成，以动态调整编码器的输出长度，以匹配预期的输入长度范围的范围预训练的解码器。我们提出了几项实验来证明Legonn模型的有效性：可以重复使用德国英语（DE-EN）MT任务的训练有素的语言解码器模块，而没有对Europarl English ASR和ROMANIAN-ENGLISH进行微调（RO）（RO）（RO）（RO） -en）MT任务以匹配或击败相应的基线模型。当针对数千个更新的目标任务进行微调时，我们的Legonn模型将RO-EN MT任务提高了1.5个BLEU点，并为Europarl ASR任务降低了12.5％的相对减少。此外，为了显示其可扩展性，我们从三个模块中构成了一个legonn ASR模型 - 每个模块都在三个不同数据集的不同端到端训练的模型中学习 - 将降低的减少降低到19.5％。