Google Releases New Version of Translatotron: Its End-to-end Speech Translation Model

Google released Translatotron, an end-to-end speech-to-speech translation model, in 2019. The tech giant claimed the single sequence-to-sequence model is the first end-to-end framework to directly translate speech from one language into speech in another language. The system was used to create synthesised translations of voices to ensure the sound of the original speaker is intact. But this feature had the potential to be misused to generate speech in a different voice and create deep fake voices.  This month, researchers at Google published a paper detailing ‘Translatotron 2’, an updated version that solves the deep fake problems. “The trained model is restricted to retain the source speaker’s voice, and unlike the original Translatotron, it is not able to generate spee