Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) in time-sensitive applications such as video dubbing requires not only semantic fidelity and speaker preservation, but also strict duration consistency to avoid audio-visual misalignment. However, existing S2ST systems largely generate target speech without explicit temporal planning, making duration control an unresolved challenge. We introduce DuraS2ST, a duration-aligned reasoning framework that enables a single speech language model to first generate an explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) for planning target wording and phonetic length, and then synthesize the corresponding speech tokens. To support this paradigm, we construct DuraSet-440K, a high-quality duration-aligned CoT corpus for supervised initialization. We further optimize the model with multi-modal multi-dimensional reinforcement learning, using a Duration Margin Reward to balance translation quality and duration consistency, and Modality-Aware Reward Attribution to assign rewards to appropriate token spans. Experiments on CVSS-T show that DuraS2ST achieves a strong balance between translation quality and duration consistency, outperforming competitive open-source and commercial baselines. Project page: https:\/\/github.com\/Mia11939\/DuraS2ST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) in time-sensitive applications such as video dubbing requires not only semantic fidelity and speaker preservation, but also strict duration consistency to avoid audio-visual misalignment. However, existing S2ST systems largely generate target speech without explicit temporal planning, making duration control an unresolved challenge. 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