Communication without language barriers: recent advances in translation foundation models

Description: The world we live in has never been more interconnected, giving people access to more multilingual content than ever before. This also makes the ability to communicate and understand information in any language increasingly important. The recent emergence of translation foundation models such as NLLB (Meta), Whisper (OpenAI), AudioPaLM (Google) and SeamlessM4T (Meta), have greatly helped reduce the language barriers in multilingual human communication. In this workshop, we will briefly go over the history of machine translation, provide an overview on the recent advances in translation foundation models, and make a deep dive into SeamlessV2, the latest translation foundation model with multilinguality, multitasking, streaming and expressivity.