Index-Translate: A Multilingual Translation Model Family -- Text, Speech, Controlled Dubbing, and Long-Document Translation

arXiv:2609.40181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Index-Translate, a multilingual translation model family that combines a shared multilingual foundation with specialized training for general translation, instruction following, speech translation, controlled dubbing, and long-document translation. It includes three model sizes, 2B, 9B, and 35B-A3B, and supports translation in 150 languages, with multilingual instruction following. Evaluations on general translation and complex translation instructions show that Index-Translate outperforms translation models of comparable size and achieves performance comparable to 100B-scale translation models and frontier models. Index-Echo provides end-to-end speech-to-text and speech-to-speech translation, outperforming existing end-to-end models and achieving performance comparable to frontier omni models. Index-Homura extends the family to syllable-controlled dubbing. Index-NativeLong introduces native long-document translation with a dedicated task formulation and benchmark. These capabilities support diverse translation tasks, including multilingual content production.

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Source: arXiv cs.CL | 2026-10-01