Summary AudioPaLM Large Language Model for Speech arxiv.org
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The text provides information about the training data, models used, and performance metrics of the AudioPaLM project, as well as acknowledgments of contributors, and discusses the capabilities and performance of the AudioPaLM large language model for speech.
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- The training data for the AudioPaLM project includes ASR and AST data, with the number of hours of training data provided for each language.
- Two models, AudioPaLM-2 8B and Whisper 1.5B, are mentioned, with average BLEU scores given for each language.
- The evaluation of the Whisper model on 82 languages is mentioned, along with the inclusion of audio data in the training of AudioPaLM.
- The contribution and acknowledgment of individuals who participated in the project are mentioned.
- The AudioPaLM large language model for speech is a comprehensive resource that covers various topics related to speech recognition and translation.
- AudioPaLM demonstrates state-of-the-art results on speech translation benchmarks and performs competitively on ASR and S2ST tasks.
- The experiments conducted to evaluate the performance of the model involved different tasks, tokenization schemes, and baselines.
- The AudioPaLM-2 model shows significant improvement compared to the AudioPaLM model in terms of performance.
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The excerpt provides information about the training data, performance metrics, and models used in the AudioPaLM project. It also includes acknowledgments of the individuals who contributed to the project.
The training data includes ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) and AST (Automatic Speech Translation) data. The number of hours of training data for ASR and AST is provided for each language.
Two models, AudioPaLM-2 8B and Whisper 1.5B, are mentioned in the excerpt. The average BLEU score is given for each language, indicating the performance of the models.
The excerpt also mentions the evaluation of the Whisper model on 82 languages and the inclusion of audio data in the training of AudioPaLM.
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Paragraph 1: The training data includes ASR and AST data, with the number of hours of training data provided for each language.
Paragraph 2: Two models, AudioPaLM-2 8B and Whisper 1.5B, are mentioned. The average BLEU score is given for each language, indicating the performance of the models.
Paragraph 3: The evaluation of the Whisper model on 82 languages is mentioned, along with the inclusion of audio data in the training of AudioPaLM.
Paragraph 4: The contribution and acknowledgment of individuals who participated in the project are mentioned. The document "AudioPaLM Large Language Model for Speech" is a comprehensive resource that includes references to various papers and studies related to speech recognition and translation. It covers topics such as large-scale weak supervision, robust speech recognition, transferable visual models, pre-trained word embeddings, and multilingual datasets. The document also mentions the use of language models for audio generation and compression, direct speech-to-speech translation, and self-supervised speech representation learning. Additionally, it provides information on specific models and frameworks like Hubert, Maestro, and Wavlm. The document includes references to conferences such as ACL, ICASSP, and NeurIPS, as well as workshops and shared task papers on machine translation. It also highlights the importance of language resources and corpora like Common Voice. AudioPaLM is a large language model for speech that can process and generate speech and text. The model has been trained on various datasets and has been evaluated on different tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech-to-text translation (S2ST). The results show that increasing the amount of training data improves the performance of the model on these tasks. Additionally, adding speech-to-speech translation tasks to the training process enhances the model's capabilities in generating audio tokens. However, this comes at a slight decrease in performance on text-output tasks. Overall, AudioPaLM demonstrates state-of-the-art results on speech translation benchmarks and performs competitively on ASR and S2ST tasks. In the document "AudioPaLM Large Language Model for Speech," several experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the model. The experiments involved training the model on different tasks, using different tokenization schemes, and comparing it to baselines. The results showed that training with combined tasks improved performance on the AST task but resulted in a slight reduction in performance on the ASR task. The choice of tokenization scheme had a significant impact on performance, with the USM-v2 tokens performing the best. Finetuning a pretrained checkpoint also improved results compared to training from scratch. Adding ASR tasks to the training data helped improve performance on AST. The model achieved higher quality and better voice similarity than the baseline Translatotron 2 system. Objective and subjective evaluations were conducted to assess audio quality and voice similarity, with AudioPaLM outperforming the baseline system. The model demonstrated superior text translation capabilities, with a significant increase in performance for AST-observed and ASR-observed languages. The AudioPaLM-2 model shows significant improvement compared to the AudioPaLM model in terms of performance. It outperforms the Whisper model in speech-to-text translation for observed languages. However, it does not perform as well in zero-shot translation as it lacks AST data for certain languages. The proposed AudioPaLM-2 model significantly outperforms the Whisper model. The number of hours of training data varies for different models. The results obtained with the two proposed AST models, AudioPaLM and AudioPaLM-2, are presented in Table 3. There are certain languages for which BLEU scores are not available. The models are evaluated on the FLEURS dataset, which includes speech utterances and their corresponding transcripts in multiple languages. The models are trained on various datasets, including VoxPopuli, CoVoST2, and Conversational EsEn. The training setup involves finetuning with the Adafactor optimizer and using loss masking on the inputs. Different datasets are used to train the models, and mixtures of data are used to improve performance. The models are trained on tasks such as ASR, AST, and S2ST. The evaluation metrics include BLEU scores, word error rate (WER), and character error rate (CER). The datasets used for training and their respective hours of audio are listed in Table 1. The models can perform tasks such as transcription, translation, and speech synthesis. Combined tasks and direct tasks are considered, with the model mapping from input to output or outputting intermediate steps. Task tags are used to specify the language and task involved in the model's output. The AudioPaLM large language model for speech is capable of performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) on utterances in different languages. It uses tokenized audio as input, along with a tag specifying the task and the language of the input and output. The model can perform tasks such as ASR, text-to-text machine translation (MT), text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), and automatic speech translation (AST). The model uses a decoder-only Transformer architecture and can generate both text and audio tokens. It can be trained on mixed speech and text tasks, and the audio tokens can be converted back to raw audio using different decoding methods. The model can also be finetuned on a mixture of speech and text tasks to improve performance. The tokenization process involves converting audio into discrete tokens using pretrained models such as w2v-BERT or Universal Speech Model (USM). The model can learn a mapping between text and audio tokens and can be used for speech-to-speech translation tasks. The overall model architecture allows for multimodal representation of both text and audio. AudioPaLM is a large language model for speech that combines text-based and speech-based language models. It can generate speech and text using a unified architecture. The model can perform tasks such as speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and speech-to-speech translation. It leverages the capabilities of pretrained text models and can be initialized with their weights. AudioPaLM exhibits zero-shot capabilities and outperforms existing systems in speech translation tasks. It can transfer voices across languages and preserve paralinguistic information such as speaker identity and intonation. The model is trained on a mixture of tasks and can process and generate both speech and text. The paper provides experimental results and ablations to evaluate the model's performance.