Japanese-to-English Simultaneous Dubbing Prototype

Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita


Abstract
Live video streaming has become an important form of communication such as virtual conferences. However, for cross-language communication in live video streaming, reading subtitles degrades the viewing experience. To address this problem, our simultaneous dubbing prototype translates and replaces the original speech of a live video stream in a simultaneous manner. Tests on a collection of 90 public videos show that our system achieves a low average latency of 11.90 seconds for smooth playback. Our method is general and can be extended to other language pairs.
Anthology ID:
2023.acl-demo.16
Volume:
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
Month:
July
Year:
2023
Address:
Toronto, Canada
Editors:
Danushka Bollegala, Ruihong Huang, Alan Ritter
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
169–178
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-demo.16
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.acl-demo.16
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Cite (ACL):
Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita. 2023. Japanese-to-English Simultaneous Dubbing Prototype. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 169–178, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Japanese-to-English Simultaneous Dubbing Prototype (Wang et al., ACL 2023)
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