Abstract:Speech translation aims to translate the speech in one language into the speech or text in another language. Compared with the pipeline system, the end-to-end speech translation model has the advantages of low latency, less error propagation, and small storage, so it has attracted much attention. However, the end-to-end model not only requires to process the long speech sequence and extract the acoustic information, but also needs to learn the alignment relationship between the source speech and the target text, leading to modeling difficulty with poor performance. This study proposes an end-to-end speech translation model with cross-modal information fusion, which deeply combines text-based machine translation model with speech translation model. For the length inconsistency between the speech and the text, a redundancy filter is proposed to remove the redundant acoustic information, making the length of filtered acoustic representation consistent with the corresponding text. For learning the alignment relationship, the parameter sharing method is applied to embed the whole machine translation model into the speech translation model with multi-task training. Experimental results on public speech translation data sets show that the proposed method can significantly improve the model performance.