3 papers
cs.CL2026
HK-LegiCoST: Leveraging Non-Verbatim Transcripts for Speech Translation
Cihan Xiao, Henry Li Xinyuan, Jinyi Yang +4
We introduce HK-LegiCoST, a new three-way parallel corpus of Cantonese-English translations, containing 600+ hours of Cantonese audio, its standard traditional Chinese transcript,…
cs.CL2025
Whisper-UT: A Unified Translation Framework for Speech and Text
Cihan Xiao, Matthew Wiesner, Debashish Chakraborty +7
Encoder-decoder models have achieved remarkable success in speech and text tasks, yet efficiently adapting these models to diverse uni/multi-modal scenarios remains an open challen…
cs.CL2025
HENT-SRT: Hierarchical Efficient Neural Transducer with Self-Distillation for Joint Speech Recognition and Translation
Amir Hussein, Cihan Xiao, Matthew Wiesner +3
Neural transducers (NT) provide an effective framework for speech streaming, demonstrating strong performance in automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the application of NT…