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Moving between speech and text across languages

SeamlessM4T joins speech recognition, text translation, speech translation, and speech generation in one multilingual research model family.

Dates and assessment

Language differences can block conversation and access to spoken information, especially where specialist translation tools are scarce.

Speech translation pipelines commonly stitched together separate recognition, translation, and synthesis systems.

The model accepts speech or text and generates translated speech or text across its documented language set.

Meta publishes inference tooling, checkpoints, and supported-language documentation that allow researchers to run and evaluate the model family.

One inspectable model family can simplify research across the pipeline while making language-by-language failure analysis more urgent.

SeamlessM4T v1 and v2 weights are CC-BY-NC-4.0, so commercial use cannot be assumed. Translation quality, toxicity, and speech identity require evaluation for each language and setting.
Capabilities and language coverage are developer-described. MIT code and noncommercial model weights have materially different reuse permissions.

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