Makers of Open Source Model Hibiki Promise ‘High-Fidelity’ Speech Translation – slator.com

On February 5, 2025, French AI research lab Kyutai introduced Hibiki, “a model for simultaneous, on-device, high fidelity speech-to-speech translation.” Hibiki is Japanese for “resonance” or “echo” but is also a famous Whisky brand. Kyutai researchers explained that, unlike other offline speech translation systems, which require waiting for the full source utterance before starting the […]