Kraken: LLM-based Speech-to-Speech Translation via Low-bitrate VQ and Dual-path Source Conditioning

arXiv:2609.13045 · cs.CL, cs.SD · Submitted 2026-09-11 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.SD

Submitted: 2026-09-11

Updated: 2026-09-11

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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