End-to-end Japanese-English Speech-to-text Translation with Spoken-to-Written Style Conversion
Journal: Journal of Natural Language Processing
Year: 2024

Speech-to-text translation (ST) translates speech from the source language into text in the target language. Because ST deals with different forms of language, it faces a language style gap between spoken and written language. The gap lies not only between the input speech and the output text but also between the input speech and the bilingual parallel corpora that are often used in ST. These gaps become an obstacle to improving the performance of ST. Spoken-to-written style conversion has been