Innovative Simultaneous Speech Translation Model: Hibiki
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Bluestein
11mo ago· 2 min readenInsight
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Summary
Hibiki is a decoder-only model for simultaneous speech translation that leverages a multistream language model to process source and target speech synchronously. It addresses the challenge of simultaneous interpretation by adapting its flow to produce real-time translations chunk by chunk. Hibiki demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in translation quality, speaker fidelity, and naturalness in French-English simultaneous speech translation tasks.
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Hibiki leverages a multistream language model to synchronously process source and target speech.
Hibiki performs adaptive, simultaneous speech translation with vanilla temperature sampling.
We introduce Hibiki, a decoder-only model for simultaneous speech translation. Hibiki leverages a multistream language model to synchronously process source and target speech, and jointly produces text and audio tokens to perform speech-to-text and speech
