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Breaking the Curse of Multilinguality in Many-to-Many Speech-to-Text Translation via a Resource-Aware Mixture of Speech Encoders

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arXiv:2608. 04586v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved significant success in speech-to-text translation (S2TT).

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