End-to-end speech translation models have become a new trend in research due to their potential of reducing error propagation. However, these models still suffer from the challenge of data scarcity. How to effectively use unlabeled or other parallel corpora from machine translation is promising but still an open problem. In this paper, we propose Cross Speech-Text Network (XSTNet), an end-to-end model for speech-to-text translation. XSTNet takes both speech and text as input and outputs both transcription and translation text. The model benefits from its three key design aspects: a self-supervised pre-trained sub-network as the audio encoder, a multi-task training objective to exploit additional parallel bilingual text, and a progressive training procedure. We evaluate the performance of XSTNet and baselines on the MuST-C En-X and LibriSpeech En-Fr datasets. In particular, XSTNet achieves state-of-the-art results on all language directions with an average BLEU of 28.8, outperforming the previous best method by 3.2 BLEU. Code, models, cases, and more detailed analysis are available at https://github.com/ReneeYe/XSTNet.
TMT: Tri-Modal Translation between Speech, Image, and Text by Processing Different Modalities as Different Languages
Integrated Vision and Language Lab., School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)（整合视觉与语言实验室，电气工程学院，韩国科学技术院（KAIST））；Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University（语言技术研究所，卡内基梅隆大学）
Bridging the Modality Gap for Speech-to-Text Translation
National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, CAS（中国科学院自动化研究所模式识别国家重点实验室）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology（中国科学院脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心）
From TOWER to SPIRE: Adding the Speech Modality to a Translation-Specialist LLM
ENS Paris-Saclay（巴黎-萨克雷大学）；INESC-ID；Instituto de Telecomunicações（电信研究所）；Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa（里斯本大学技术学院）；Sapienza University of Rome（罗马萨皮恩扎大学）；University of Edinburgh（爱丁堡大学）；TransPerfect；NAVER LABS Europe（NAVER欧洲实验室）
PaCE: Unified Multi-modal Dialogue Pre-training with Progressive and Compositional Experts
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团达摩院）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）
SpeechT5: Unified-Modal Encoder-Decoder Pre-Training for Spoken Language Processing
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）；Tongji University（同济大学）；Microsoft（微软）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）
受T5（Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer）在预训练自然语言处理模型中的成功启发，我们提出了一个统一模态SpeechT5框架，该框架探索了用于自监督语音/文本表示学习的编码器-解码器预训练。SpeechT5框架由一个共享的编码器-解码器网络和六个特定于模态（语音/文本）的前/后网络组成。在通过前网络对输入语音/文本进行预处理之后，共享的编码器-解码器网络对序列到序列的变换进行建模，然后后网络基于解码器的输出以语音/文本模态生成输出。利用大规模未标记的语音和文本数据，我们对SpeechT5进行了预训练，以学习统一的模态表示，希望提高语音和文本的建模能力。为了将文本和语音信息对齐到这个统一的语义空间中，我们提出了一种跨模态矢量量化方法，该方法将语音/文本状态与潜在单元随机混合，作为编码器和解码器之间的接口。广泛的评估表明，所提出的SpeechT5框架在各种各样的口头语言处理任务，包括自动语音识别，语音合成，语音翻译，语音转换，语音增强和说话人识别的优越性。我们在www.example.com上发布我们的代码和模型。
HPRO: Hierarchical Progressive Reward Optimization via Preference Extraction for Emotional Text-to-Speech
South China University of Technology, China（华南理工大学，中国）；Huya Inc., China（欢丫公司，中国）；Tongyi Fun Team, Alibaba Group, China（通义 Fun 团队，阿里巴巴集团，中国）；Foshan University, China（佛山大学，中国）
Speech-Text Dialog Pre-training for Spoken Dialog Understanding with Explicit Cross-Modal Alignment
Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）；Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）
OpenOmni: Advancing Open-Source Omnimodal Large Language Models with Progressive Multimodal Alignment and Real-Time Self-Aware Emotional Speech Synthesis
Shenzhen Key Laboratory for High Performance Data Mining（深圳高性能数据挖掘重点实验室）；Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology（深圳先进技术研究院）；Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Tongyi Laboratory（通义实验室）；University of New South Wales（新南威尔士大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；MoE Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Perception and Cognition（脑启发智能感知与认知重点实验室）
M-Adapter: Modality Adaptation for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation
Monash University（莫纳什大学）
端到端的语音到文本翻译模型通常使用预训练的语音编码器和预训练的文本解码器进行初始化。这导致预训练和微调之间的显著训练间隙，这主要是由于来自编码器的语音输出和到解码器的文本输入之间的模态差异。在这项工作中，我们的目标是弥合语音和文本之间的模态差距，以提高翻译质量。我们提出了M-Adapter，一个新的基于transformer的模块，以适应语音表示文本。在缩小语音序列的同时，M-Adapter通过对语音序列的全局和局部依赖关系进行建模，产生语音到文本翻译所需的特征。我们的实验结果表明，我们的模型在Must-C En $\rightarrow$ DE数据集上的性能优于强基线，最高可达1个BLEU分数。\footnote{Our code is available at https://github.com/mingzi151/w2v2-st.}
Efficient Training for Cross-lingual Speech Language Models
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT/CAS)（中国科学院计算技术研究所智能信息处理重点实验室）；State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所人工智能安全国家重点实验室）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Self-Powered LLM Modality Expansion for Large Speech-Text Models
Institute of Computing and Intelligence, Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学计算与智能学院）；Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学计算机学院）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
Cross-Modal Masking for Robust Silent Speech Synthesis Using sEMG and Lipreading
Aholab research group within the HiTZ Center at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)（巴斯克大学HiTZ中心内Aholab研究组）；PRHLT research center, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)（瓦伦西亚理工大学PRHLT研究中心）
