---
language:
- fr
- en
inference: false
tags:
- speech-to-speech-translation
- speechbrain
license: apache-2.0
datasets:
- CVSS
---


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# Speech-to-Unit Translation trained on CVSS

This repository provides all the necessary tools for using a a speech-to-unit translation (S2UT) model using a pre-trained Wav2Vec 2.0 encoder and a transformer decoder on the [CVSS](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03713) dataset.
The implementation is based on [Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08352) and [Enhanced Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation Using Self-supervised Pre-training and Data Augmentatio](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02967) papers.

The pre-trained model take as input waveform and produces discrete self-supervised representations as output. Typically, a vocoder (e.g., HiFiGAN Unit) is utilized on top of the S2UT model to produce waveform.
To generate the discrete self-supervised representations, we employ a K-means clustering model trained on the 6th layer of HuBERT, with `k=100`.

## Install SpeechBrain

First of all, please install tranformers and SpeechBrain with the following command:

```
pip install speechbrain transformers
```

Please notice that we encourage you to read our tutorials and learn more about
[SpeechBrain](https://speechbrain.github.io).


### Perform speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) with S2UT model and the Vocoder
```python
import torch
import torchaudio
from speechbrain.inference.ST import EncoderDecoderS2UT
from speechbrain.inference.vocoders import UnitHIFIGAN

# Intialize S2UT (Transformer) and Vocoder (HiFIGAN Unit)
s2ut = EncoderDecoderS2UT.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/s2st-transformer-fr-en-hubert-l6-k100-cvss", savedir="tmpdir_s2ut")
hifi_gan_unit = UnitHIFIGAN.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/tts-hifigan-unit-hubert-l6-k100-ljspeech", savedir="tmpdir_vocoder")

# Running the S2UT model
codes = s2ut.translate_file("speechbrain/s2st-transformer-fr-en-hubert-l6-k100-cvss/example-fr.wav")
codes = torch.IntTensor(codes)

# Running Vocoder (units-to-waveform)
waveforms = hifi_gan_unit.decode_unit(codes)

# Save the waverform
torchaudio.save('example.wav',waveforms.squeeze(1), 16000)
```

### Inference on GPU
To perform inference on the GPU, add  `run_opts={"device":"cuda"}`  when calling the `from_hparams` method.


### Limitations
The SpeechBrain team does not provide any warranty on the performance achieved by this model when used on other datasets.

#### Referencing SpeechBrain

```
@misc{SB2021,
    author = {Ravanelli, Mirco and Parcollet, Titouan and Rouhe, Aku and Plantinga, Peter and Rastorgueva, Elena and Lugosch, Loren and Dawalatabad, Nauman and Ju-Chieh, Chou and Heba, Abdel and Grondin, Francois and Aris, William and Liao, Chien-Feng and Cornell, Samuele and Yeh, Sung-Lin and Na, Hwidong and Gao, Yan and Fu, Szu-Wei and Subakan, Cem and De Mori, Renato and Bengio, Yoshua },
    title = {SpeechBrain},
    year = {2021},
    publisher = {GitHub},
    journal = {GitHub repository},
    howpublished = {\\\\url{https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain}},
  }
```

#### About SpeechBrain
SpeechBrain is an open-source and all-in-one speech toolkit. It is designed to be simple, extremely flexible, and user-friendly. Competitive or state-of-the-art performance is obtained in various domains.

Website: https://speechbrain.github.io/

GitHub: https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain