Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) refers to a type of te chnology that converts speech in one languageinto speech in another language, w hich is also known as speech translation, and is very helpful in breakingdown c ommunication barriers between people who do not speak the same language. Unlike conventionaltext-to-text machine translation, both the input and output of the speech translation task are speech. The technology is becoming increasingly impo rtant in the trend of globalization, providing more directconvenience especiall y in cross-border communication, tourism, business, and other fields.