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The SeamlessM4T authors write that conventional speech-to-speech translation systems rely on cascaded systems that perform translation progressively.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“conventional speech-to-speech translation systems rely on cascaded systems that perform translation progressively”
SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual and Multimodal Machine Translation, Seamless Communication, Meta AI (arXiv), 2023, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2308.11596)- What it measures
- A cascade chains recognition, then text translation, so the output of each step is the input of the next.
- What it does not show
- Describes speech-to-speech systems; the same chaining applies when the output is text.