title: Speech Sense Disambiguation: Tackling Homophone Ambiguity in End-to-End Speech Translation
abstract: End-to-end speech translation (ST) presents notable disambiguation challenges as it necessitates simultaneous cross-modal and crosslingual transformations.While word sense disambiguation is an extensively investigated topic in textual machine translation, the exploration of disambiguation strategies for ST models remains limited.Addressing this gap, this paper introduces the concept of speech sense disambiguation (SSD), specifically emphasizing homophones -words pronounced identically but with d