Abstract: Representation learning for text and speech has improved many language-related tasks. However, existing methods only learn from one input modality, while a unified representation for both speech and text is needed for tasks such as end-to-end speech translation. Consequently, these methods cannot exploit various large-scale text and speech data and their performance is limited by the scarcity of parallel speech translation data. To address these problems, embodiments of a fused acoustic and text masked language model (FAT-MLM) are disclosed. FAT-MLM embodiments jointly learn a unified representation for both acoustic and text input from various types of corpora including parallel data for speech recognition and machine translation, and pure speech and text data. Within this cross-modal representation learning framework, an end-to-end model is further presented for fused acoustic and text speech translation.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for generating a dialogue model. The method may include: acquiring a corpus sample set, a corpus sample including input information and target response information; classifying corpus samples in the corpus sample set, setting discrete hidden variables for the corpus samples based on a classification result to generate a training sample set, a training sample including the input information, the target response information, and a discrete hidden variable; and training a preset neural network using the training sample set to obtain the dialogue model, the dialogue model being used to represent a corresponding relationship between inputted input information and outputted target response information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for generating a dialogue model. The method may include: acquiring a corpus sample set, a corpus sample including input information and target response information; classifying corpus samples in the corpus sample set, setting discrete hidden variables for the corpus samples based on a classification result to generate a training sample set, a training sample including the input information, the target response information, and a discrete hidden variable; and training a preset neural network using the training sample set to obtain the dialogue model, the dialogue model being used to represent a corresponding relationship between inputted input information and outputted target response information.