Google details Translatotron, its project to directly translate speech from one language into speech in another without intermediate text (Google AI Blog)

Google AI Blog:
Google details Translatotron, its project to directly translate speech from one language into speech in another without intermediate text  —  Posted by Ye Jia and Ron Weiss, Software Engineers, Google AI  —  Speech-to-speech translation systems have been developed over the past several decades …

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