MELD-ST: An Emotion-aware Speech Translation Dataset

Sirou Chen, Sakiko Yahata, Shuichiro Shimizu, Zhengdong Yang, Yihang Li, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi


Abstract
Emotion plays a crucial role in human conversation. This paper underscores the significance of considering emotion in speech translation. We present the MELD-ST dataset for the emotion-aware speech translation task, comprising English-to-Japanese and English-to-German language pairs. Each language pair includes about 10,000 utterances annotated with emotion labels from the MELD dataset. Baseline experiments using the SeamlessM4T model on the dataset indicate that fine-tuning with emotion labels can enhance translation performance in some settings, highlighting the need for further research in emotion-aware speech translation systems.
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2024.findings-acl.601
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10118–10126
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.601
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10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.601
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Sirou Chen, Sakiko Yahata, Shuichiro Shimizu, Zhengdong Yang, Yihang Li, Chenhui Chu, and Sadao Kurohashi. 2024. MELD-ST: An Emotion-aware Speech Translation Dataset. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, pages 10118–10126, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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