Beginner’s Guide to SeamlessM4T
The first, all-in-one, multimodal translation model by Meta AI
The topic for today is about SeamlessM4T, a new massively multilingual and multimodal machine translation model developed by Meta AI.
Based on the official repository, SeamlessM4T is built to
… provide high quality translation, allowing people from different linguistic communities to communicate effortlessly through speech and text.
At the time of this writing, the initial release of SeamlessM4T supports:
- 101 languages for speech input.
- 96 Languages for text input/output.
- 35 languages for speech output.
One main advantage of SeamlessM4T framework is that it is a single unified model that is capable of the following tasks:
- Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST)
- Speech-to-text translation (S2TT)
- Text-to-speech translation (T2ST)
- Text-to-text translation (T2TT)
- Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
SeamlessM4T is designed to solve the following problems related to all existing translation systems:
- limited language coverage, which result in challenges for multilingual communication