Adapting Large-Scale Foundation Models for Turkic Speech-to-Speech Translation: Fine-Tuned Cascade and Direct Approaches
This paper presents a novel approach to speech-to-speech (STS) translation for low-resource Turkic languages. Today, STS has progressed rapidly for high-resource languages; the Turkic family remains significantly underrepresented. Consequently, it is quite challenging to develop a reliable speech translation system for...