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most citedStacked Acoustic-and-Textual Encoding: Integrating the Pre-trained Models into Speech Translation Encoders

6 citations · 18 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CL2026

ConversationalVoice: Full-Duplex Speech Data from Real Conversations through Source-Faithful Reconstruction and Conversation-Grounded Expansion

Richard Yucheng He, Baodong Cao, Chen Xu +2

Full-duplex speech models require training data that preserves turn-taking, overlap, interruption, and backchannel behavior, yet these signals are entangled across speakers in nois…

cs.SD2026

From Human Speech to Ocean Signals: Transferring Speech Large Models for Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition

Mengcheng Huang, Xue Zhou, Chen Xu +1

Underwater acoustic target recognition (UATR) plays a vital role in marine applications but remains challenging due to limited labeled data and the complexity of ocean environments…

cs.CL2025

Seewo's Submission to MLC-SLM: Lessons learned from Speech Reasoning Language Models

Bo Li, Chengben Xu, Wufeng Zhang

This paper presents Seewo's systems for both tracks of the Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Model Challenge (MLC-SLM), addressing automatic speech recognition (ASR) and…

eess.AS2025★ 1 cited

Enhancing Speech Large Language Models with Prompt-Aware Mixture of Audio Encoders

Weiqiao Shan, Yuang Li, Yuhao Zhang +9

Connecting audio encoders with large language models (LLMs) allows the LLM to perform various audio understanding tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and audio captio…

cs.CL2024

A Modular-based Strategy for Mitigating Gradient Conflicts in Simultaneous Speech Translation

Xiaoqian Liu, Yangfan Du, Jianjin Wang +5

Simultaneous Speech Translation (SimulST) involves generating target language text while continuously processing streaming speech input, presenting significant real-time challenges…

cs.SD2024

Low-Resourced Speech Recognition for Iu Mien Language via Weakly-Supervised Phoneme-based Multilingual Pre-training

Lukuan Dong, Donghong Qin, Fengbo Bai +4

The mainstream automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology usually requires hundreds to thousands of hours of annotated speech data. Three approaches to low-resourced ASR are pho…

cs.SD2024

Recent Advances in End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation

Xiaoqian Liu, Guoqiang Hu, Yangfan Du +5

Simultaneous speech translation (SimulST) is a demanding task that involves generating translations in real-time while continuously processing speech input. This paper offers a com…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Soft Alignment of Modality Space for End-to-end Speech Translation

Yuhao Zhang, Kaiqi Kou, Bei Li +4

End-to-end Speech Translation (ST) aims to convert speech into target text within a unified model. The inherent differences between speech and text modalities often impede effectiv…

cs.CL2023

Rethinking and Improving Multi-task Learning for End-to-end Speech Translation

Yuhao Zhang, Chen Xu, Bei Li +4

Significant improvements in end-to-end speech translation (ST) have been achieved through the application of multi-task learning. However, the extent to which auxiliary tasks are h…

cs.CL2023

Bridging the Gaps of Both Modality and Language: Synchronous Bilingual CTC for Speech Translation and Speech Recognition

Chen Xu, Xiaoqian Liu, Erfeng He +6

In this study, we present synchronous bilingual Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC), an innovative framework that leverages dual CTC to bridge the gaps of both modality and…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Recent Advances in Direct Speech-to-text Translation

Chen Xu, Rong Ye, Qianqian Dong +5

Recently, speech-to-text translation has attracted more and more attention and many studies have emerged rapidly. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on direct speech…

cs.CL2023

Modality Adaption or Regularization? A Case Study on End-to-End Speech Translation

Yuchen Han, Chen Xu, Tong Xiao +1

Pre-training and fine-tuning is a paradigm for alleviating the data scarcity problem in end-to-end speech translation (E2E ST). The commonplace "modality gap" between speech and te…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

PolyVoice: Language Models for Speech to Speech Translation

Qianqian Dong, Zhiying Huang, Qiao Tian +15

We propose PolyVoice, a language model-based framework for speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system. Our framework consists of two language models: a translation language model a…

cs.CL2023

CTC-based Non-autoregressive Speech Translation

Chen Xu, Xiaoqian Liu, Xiaowen Liu +9

Combining end-to-end speech translation (ST) and non-autoregressive (NAR) generation is promising in language and speech processing for their advantages of less error propagation a…

cs.CL2023

Bridging the Granularity Gap for Acoustic Modeling

Chen Xu, Yuhao Zhang, Chengbo Jiao +7

While Transformer has become the de-facto standard for speech, modeling upon the fine-grained frame-level features remains an open challenge of capturing long-distance dependencies…

eess.AS2022★ 3 cited

Improving End-to-end Speech Translation by Leveraging Auxiliary Speech and Text Data

Yuhao Zhang, Chen Xu, Bojie Hu +3

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 s…

cs.CL2021

The NiuTrans End-to-End Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2021 Offline Task

Chen Xu, Xiaoqian Liu, Xiaowen Liu +4

This paper describes the submission of the NiuTrans end-to-end speech translation system for the IWSLT 2021 offline task, which translates from the English audio to German text dir…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

Stacked Acoustic-and-Textual Encoding: Integrating the Pre-trained Models into Speech Translation Encoders

Chen Xu, Bojie Hu, Yanyang Li +5

Encoder pre-training is promising in end-to-end Speech Translation (ST), given the fact that speech-to-translation data is scarce. But ST encoders are not simple instances of Autom…

cs.CL2020

Dynamic Curriculum Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Chen Xu, Bojie Hu, Yufan Jiang +6

Large amounts of data has made neural machine translation (NMT) a big success in recent years. But it is still a challenge if we train these models on small-scale corpora. In this…