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MuSLAM: Multitask, Multilingual Speech and Language Models
Yong Cheng, Yu Zhang, Melvin Johnson +2
We present MuSLAM, a multilingual sequence-to-sequence model pre-trained jointly on unlabeled speech, unlabeled text and supervised data spanning Automatic Speech Recognition…
Maestro-U: Leveraging joint speech-text representation learning for zero supervised speech ASR
Zhehuai Chen, Ankur Bapna, Andrew Rosenberg +4
Training state-of-the-art Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) models typically requires a substantial amount of transcribed speech. In this work, we demonstrate that a modality-matc…
JOIST: A Joint Speech and Text Streaming Model For ASR
Tara N. Sainath, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Ankur Bapna +6
We present JOIST, an algorithm to train a streaming, cascaded, encoder end-to-end (E2E) model with both speech-text paired inputs, and text-only unpaired inputs. Unlike previous wo…
SQuId: Measuring Speech Naturalness in Many Languages
Thibault Sellam, Ankur Bapna, Joshua Camp +3
Much of text-to-speech research relies on human evaluation, which incurs heavy costs and slows down the development process. The problem is particularly acute in heavily multilingu…
FLEURS: Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech
Alexis Conneau, Min Ma, Simran Khanuja +6
We introduce FLEURS, the Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech benchmark. FLEURS is an n-way parallel speech dataset in 102 languages built on top of…
Building Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages
Ankur Bapna, Isaac Caswell, Julia Kreutzer +21
In this paper we share findings from our effort to build practical machine translation (MT) systems capable of translating across over one thousand languages. We describe results i…
XTREME-S: Evaluating Cross-lingual Speech Representations
Alexis Conneau, Ankur Bapna, Yu Zhang +16
We introduce XTREME-S, a new benchmark to evaluate universal cross-lingual speech representations in many languages. XTREME-S covers four task families: speech recognition, classif…
MAESTRO: Matched Speech Text Representations through Modality Matching
Zhehuai Chen, Yu Zhang, Andrew Rosenberg +4
We present Maestro, a self-supervised training method to unify representations learnt from speech and text modalities. Self-supervised learning from speech signals aims to learn th…
Multilingual Mix: Example Interpolation Improves Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Yong Cheng, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat +3
Multilingual neural machine translation models are trained to maximize the likelihood of a mix of examples drawn from multiple language pairs. The dominant inductive bias applied t…
Leveraging unsupervised and weakly-supervised data to improve direct speech-to-speech translation
Ye Jia, Yifan Ding, Ankur Bapna +4
End-to-end speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) without relying on intermediate text representations is a rapidly emerging frontier of research. Recent works have demonstrated that…
Examining Scaling and Transfer of Language Model Architectures for Machine Translation
Biao Zhang, Behrooz Ghorbani, Ankur Bapna +4
Natural language understanding and generation models follow one of the two dominant architectural paradigms: language models (LMs) that process concatenated sequences in a single s…
mSLAM: Massively multilingual joint pre-training for speech and text
Ankur Bapna, Colin Cherry, Yu Zhang +6
We present mSLAM, a multilingual Speech and LAnguage Model that learns cross-lingual cross-modal representations of speech and text by pre-training jointly on large amounts of unla…
Towards the Next 1000 Languages in Multilingual Machine Translation: Exploring the Synergy Between Supervised and Self-Supervised Learning
Aditya Siddhant, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat +4
Achieving universal translation between all human language pairs is the holy-grail of machine translation (MT) research. While recent progress in massively multilingual MT is one s…