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Main Authors: Pilz, Rene, Schneider, Johannes
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16234
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author Pilz, Rene
Schneider, Johannes
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Schneider, Johannes
contents This paper explores the idea of using phonemes as a textual representation within a conventional multilingual simultaneous speech-to-speech translation pipeline, as opposed to the traditional reliance on text-based language representations. To investigate this, we trained an open-source sequence-to-sequence model on the WMT17 dataset in two formats: one using standard textual representation and the other employing phonemic representation. The performance of both approaches was assessed using the BLEU metric. Our findings shows that the phonemic approach provides comparable quality but offers several advantages, including lower resource requirements or better suitability for low-resource languages.
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spellingShingle Using Phonemes in cascaded S2S translation pipeline
Pilz, Rene
Schneider, Johannes
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
This paper explores the idea of using phonemes as a textual representation within a conventional multilingual simultaneous speech-to-speech translation pipeline, as opposed to the traditional reliance on text-based language representations. To investigate this, we trained an open-source sequence-to-sequence model on the WMT17 dataset in two formats: one using standard textual representation and the other employing phonemic representation. The performance of both approaches was assessed using the BLEU metric. Our findings shows that the phonemic approach provides comparable quality but offers several advantages, including lower resource requirements or better suitability for low-resource languages.
title Using Phonemes in cascaded S2S translation pipeline
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16234