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Summarizing https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/seamless-m4t/
Here's my try:
The paper presents SeamlessM4T, a new machine translation system that can handle multiple languages and modalities. The authors propose a novel approach to improve the performance of M4T systems by using a combination of multilingual and multimodal pre-training techniques. They also introduce a new evaluation metric for evaluating the quality of M4T systems in different modalities.
SeamlessM4T achieves an improvement of 20% BLEU over the previous state-of-the-art in direct speech-to-text translation. Compared to strong cascaded models, SeamlessM4T improves the quality of into-English translation by 1.3 BLEU points in speech-to-text and by 2.6 ASR-BLEU points in speech-to-speech. On CVSS and compared to a 2-stage cascaded model for speech-to-speech translation, SeamlessM4T-Large’s performance is stronger by 58%.
Preliminary human evaluations of speech-to-text translation outputs evinced similarly impressive results; for translations from English, XSTS scores were higher than those of strong cascaded models, while for translations into English, the scores were on par with or better than those of strong cascaded models.
Here's my try:
The paper presents SeamlessM4T, a new machine translation system that can handle multiple languages and modalities. The authors propose a novel approach to improve the performance of M4T systems by using a combination of multilingual and multimodal pre-training techniques. They also introduce a new evaluation metric for evaluating the quality of M4T systems in different modalities.
SeamlessM4T achieves an improvement of 20% BLEU over the previous state-of-the-art in direct speech-to-text translation. Compared to strong cascaded models, SeamlessM4T improves the quality of into-English translation by 1.3 BLEU points in speech-to-text and by 2.6 ASR-BLEU points in speech-to-speech. On CVSS and compared to a 2-stage cascaded model for speech-to-speech translation, SeamlessM4T-Large’s performance is stronger by 58%.
Preliminary human evaluations of speech-to-text translation outputs evinced similarly impressive results; for translations from English, XSTS scores were higher than those of strong cascaded models, while for translations into English, the scores were on par with or better than those of strong cascaded models.