Survey of cultural awareness in language models: Text and beyond

S Pawar, J Park, J **, A Arora, J Myung… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large-scale deployment of large language models (LLMs) in various applications, such as
chatbots and virtual assistants, requires LLMs to be culturally sensitive to the user to ensure …

Emphassess: a prosodic benchmark on assessing emphasis transfer in speech-to-speech models

M de Seyssel, A D'Avirro, A Williams… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We introduce EmphAssess, a prosodic benchmark designed to evaluate the capability of
speech-to-speech models to encode and reproduce prosodic emphasis. We apply this to …

Analyzing Speech Unit Selection for Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation

J Duret, Y Estève, T Parcollet - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.18332, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advancements in textless speech-to-speech translation systems have been driven
by the adoption of self-supervised learning techniques. Although most state-of-the-art …

An Efficient English-to-Hindi Speech Translation System Using Bi-LSTM

S Singh, RS Jakhar, AP Bidargaddi, A Kumar… - … on Innovations in …, 2024 - Springer
The process of translating speech from English to Hindi is fraught with several challenges.
These include intricate linguistic nuances and diverse sentence structures that make the …