Learning When to Commit from Partial Speech for End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation

The paper presents a method for improving simultaneous speech translation by adapting a full‑utterance speech language model with prefix supervision derived from its own complete and partial waveform translations, eliminating the need for transcripts or human translations. Experiments on FLEURS and CoVoST2 across three language directions show that prefix training enhances quality–latency trade‑offs, especially when combined with multi‑turn append‑only decoding, and that a confidence threshold effectively controls the inference‑time quality–latency balance. The study also explores the impact of synthesis margin on translation quality and calibration, finding a non‑monotonic relationship with latency.

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