LLaST: Improved End-to-end Speech Translation System Leveraged by Large Language Models

Xi Chen, Songyang Zhang, Qibing Bai, Kai Chen, Satoshi Nakamura


Abstract
We introduces ***LLaST***, a framework for building high-performance Large Language model based Speech-to-text Translation systems. We address the limitations of end-to-end speech translation (E2E ST) models by exploring model architecture design and optimization techniques tailored for LLMs. Our approach includes LLM-based speech translation architecture design, ASR-augmented training, multilingual data augmentation, and dual-LoRA optimization. Our approach demonstrates superior performance on the CoVoST-2 benchmark and showcases exceptional scaling capabilities powered by LLMs.We believe this effective method will serve as a strong baseline for speech translation and provide insights for futureimprovements of the LLM-based speech translation framework.
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2024.findings-acl.416
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6976–6987
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10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.416
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Xi Chen, Songyang Zhang, Qibing Bai, Kai Chen, and Satoshi Nakamura. 2024. LLaST: Improved End-to-end Speech Translation System Leveraged by Large Language Models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, pages 6976–6987, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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