Kraken: LLM-based Speech-to-Speech Translation via Low-bitrate VQ and Dual-path Source Conditioning
Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has advanced significantly with speech LLMs, offering the potential for joint optimization and preserving non-linguistic information. However, these models struggle with predicting high-bitrate speech tokens in LLMs, and face the challenge of relying on S2ST training data with ideall...