Speech-to-speech Translation between Untranscribed Unknown Languages [article]

Andros Tjandra, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura
2019 arXiv   pre-print
In this paper, we explore a method for training speech-to-speech translation tasks without any transcription or linguistic supervision. Our proposed method consists of two steps: First, we train and generate discrete representation with unsupervised term discovery with a discrete quantized autoencoder. Second, we train a sequence-to-sequence model that directly maps the source language speech to the target language's discrete representation. Our proposed method can directly generate target
more » ... h without any auxiliary or pre-training steps with a source or target transcription. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that performed pure speech-to-speech translation between untranscribed unknown languages.
arXiv:1910.00795v2 fatcat:hi57dybnjrfbjcbq2ejoick2eq