Title :
Development and application of multilingual speech translation
Author :
Nakamura, Satoshi
Author_Institution :
Spoken Language Commun. Res. Group, Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
This paper describes the latest version of handheld speech-to-speech translation system developed by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT. As the entire speech-to-speech translation functions are implemented into one terminal, it realizes real-time and location free speech-to-speech translation service for many language pairs. A new noise-suppression technique notably improves speech recognition performance. Corpus-based approaches of recognition, translation, and synthesis enabled wide range coverage of topic varieties and portability to other languages. Currently, we mainly focus on translation between Japanese, English and Chinese.
Keywords :
language translation; speech recognition; handheld speech-to-speech translation system; multilingual speech translation; noise-suppression technique; speech recognition; Adaptation model; Communications technology; Large-scale systems; Loudspeakers; Natural languages; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Surface-mount technology; Training data; Working environment noise; large-scale corpus; machine translation; speech recognition; speech synthesis; speech-to-speech translation;
Conference_Titel :
Speech Database and Assessments, 2009 Oriental COCOSDA International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Urumqi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4400-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4400-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSDA.2009.5278383
