2 papers
cs.CL2026
Evaluating and Preserving Lexical Stress in English-to-Chinese Speech-to-Speech Translation
Yuchen Song, Xi Chen, Mingze Li +1
Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) systems have achieved impressive progress in semantic accuracy and speech naturalness. However, the cross-lingual transfer of lexical stress, a…
cs.CL2025
StressTransfer: Stress-Aware Speech-to-Speech Translation with Emphasis Preservation
Xi Chen, Yuchen Song, Satoshi Nakamura
We propose a stress-aware speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system that preserves word-level emphasis by leveraging LLMs for cross-lingual emphasis conversion. Our method transla…