Sirou Chen
2024
MELD-ST: An Emotion-aware Speech Translation Dataset
Sirou Chen
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Sakiko Yahata
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Shuichiro Shimizu
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Zhengdong Yang
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Yihang Li
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Chenhui Chu
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Sadao Kurohashi
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
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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- Sakiko Yahata 1
- Shuichiro Shimizu 1
- Zhengdong Yang 1
- Yihang Li 1
- Chenhui Chu 1
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