Month: January 2025

Ablation Study Reveals the Role of Semantic & Acoustic Prompts in SEAMLESSEXPRESSIVELM’s Performance

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Model Experiments Ablation Study Conclusion, Limitations, and Risks 5. Ablation Study Semantic units and prompt acoustic units make a chain of S2ST prompts for SEAMLESSEXPRESSIVELM. A natural question to ask is how effective such prompt design is for speech LM training. Therefore we tried other prompting … Read more

Experiments on SEAMLESSEXPRESSIVELM Reveal Its Superiority in Efficiency and Translation Quality

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Model Experiments Ablation Study Conclusion, Limitations, and Risks 4. Experiments This section covers empirical details of model training and evaluation on the task of speechto-speech translation with speaker style transfer. We consider Spanish-to-English (Es-En) and Hungarian-to-English (Hu-En) translation as representative translations between similar and distant languages. … Read more

Advancements in Speech Translation Address Inefficiency and Errors in Cascaded Models

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Model Experiments Ablation Study Conclusion, Limitations, and Risks 2. Related Work S2ST. The series of Translatotron models have encoder-decoder architecture to translate source speech into target spectrogram, which could be synthesized as waveform with a separately trained vocoder. Translatotron uses a speaker encoder to enable voice … Read more

Future of Speech Translation with SEAMLESSEXPRESSIVELM

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Model Experiments Ablation Study Conclusion, Limitations, and Risks 6. Conclusion We propose SEAMLESSEXPRESSIVELM to achieve expressive S2ST with chain-of-thought, which unifies semantic and acoustic language modeling, and improves efficiency over cascaded approach. 7. Limitations and Risks Limitations. One limitation of this work is that it focuses … Read more

SEAMLESSEXPRESSIVELM Transforms Speech Translation by Preserving Semantics and Speaker Vocal Style

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:::info Authors: (1) Hongyu Gong, Meta AI (hygong@meta.com); (2) Bandhav Veluri, Meta AI (bandhav@meta.com). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Model Experiments Ablation Study Conclusion, Limitations, and Risks Abstract Expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) is a key research topic in seamless communication, which focuses on the preservation of semantics and speaker vocal … Read more

SEAMLESSEXPRESSIVELM Unifies Semantic & Acoustic Modeling for Efficient Speech Translation

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Model Experiments Ablation Study Conclusion, Limitations, and Risks 3. Model This section introduces SEAMLESSEXPRESSIVELM, a decoder-only language model for style transferred speech-to-speech translation. 3.1 Speech Tokenizers Speech tokenizers convert continuous speech waveform into a sequence of discrete units. HuBERT is used to derive semantic units of … Read more

MoviePass might pivot to crypto

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After MoviePass’s historic implosion, subscribers to the “Netflix for movie theaters” were already cautious around the company’s 2023 relaunch. These moviegoers may grow even more skeptical after MoviePass sent out an email blast on Wednesday, which surveyed customers about their interest in web3. “Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies are transforming the business landscape at an unprecedented … Read more

Elliot Page’s production company is making Beyond: Two Souls into a TV show

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Elliot Page. | Photo: Getty Images Beyond: Two Souls, the Quantic Dream-made interactive thriller starring Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, is being adapted for TV by Page’s Pageboy Productions, Deadline reports. The series is in early development and it’s “expected to explore the game’s non-linear narrative,” according to Deadline. In the game, you play as … Read more

Sandboxes Are a Way Out of the Regulatory Sandstorm

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Regulation by enforcement is beginning to crumble, with a court recently ruling that the SEC’s refusal to issue a crypto rule was unlawful. A new crypto-friendly administration stands ready to create crypto clarity through new appointments at the SEC and the CFTC. New acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham has proposed an uncommon approach, namely the … Read more

Fed Holds Rates Steady, Takes Note of Elevated Inflation

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As expected, the U.S. Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark fed funds range rate steady at 4.25%-4.50%, the first pause since the central bank began easing policy last September. The accompanying policy statement noted that the unemployment rate had stabilized at a “low level” and inflation remained “somewhat elevated.” The wording was hawkish as it … Read more

Taiko CTO Says Most Rollups Aren’t Really Decentralized—Here’s Why

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Brecht Devos, the Co-Founder and CTO of Taiko, sits at the forefront of Ethereum’s scaling revolution with a rollup designed to uphold its core values of decentralization and permissionlessness. While many rollups prioritize speed and centralization, Taiko aims to mirror Ethereum as closely as possible, ensuring real-time censorship resistance and composability. In this exclusive interview, … Read more

A Case Study on Gamifying Software Engineering Workplaces

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:::info Authors: (1) Oscar Pedreira, Universidade da Coruna, Centro de Investigacion CITIC, Laboratorio de Bases de Datos, Facultade de Informatica; (2) Felix García, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Grupo Alarcos, Escuela Superior de Informatica, Paseo de la Universidad; (3) Mario Piattini, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Grupo Alarcos, Escuela Superior de Informatica, Paseo de la Universidad; (4) … Read more