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arXiv cs.CL
October 26th, 2026 at 4:00 AM

DIAL-S2ST: Learning Latency Control for Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation

arXiv:2610.32214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose DIAL-S2ST, a post-training method for learning inference-time latency control in simultaneous speech-to-speech translation models. Our approach reuses pretrained translation capabilities through self-distillation from lookahead predictions, while limiting the influence of large text distillation losses to account for the imitation gap. This provides supervision for earlier emission without paired target data or reward computation. To make the learned timing adjustable at inference, we jointly train a single LoRA adapter across scales with matched lookahead guidance. Experiments on French-to-English translation with Hibiki demonstrate that only 10 hours of source speech enable this adaptation, providing flexible latency control with a favorable quality-latency trade-off.

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Canonical link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32214