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Meta AI announces first AI-powered speech translation system for an unwritten language

Meta AI pioneers speech-to-speech translation for languages that are spoken but not typically written, for real life and the metaverse.Read More

Speech AI Expands Global Reach With Telugu Language Breakthrough

More than 75 million people speak Telugu, predominantly in India’s southern regions, making it one of the most widely spoken languages in the country. Despite such prevalence, Telugu is considered a low-resource language when it comes to speech AI. This means there aren’t enough hours’ worth of speech datasets to…

December 3, 2022

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Evaluating the IWSLT2023 Speech Translation Tasks: Human Annotations, Automatic Metrics, and Segmentation

Human evaluation is a critical component in machine translation system development and has received much attention in text translation research. However, little prior work exists on the topic of human evaluation for speech translation, which adds additional challenges such as noisy data and segmentation mismatches. We take first steps to…

June 15, 2024

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Amazon Transcribe announces a new speech foundation model-powered ASR system that expands support to over 100 languages

Amazon Transcribe is a fully managed automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it straightforward for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are happy to announce a next-generation multi-billion parameter speech foundation model-powered system that expands automatic speech recognition to over 100 languages. In this post,…

November 27, 2023

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