Rapid Development of a Speech Translation System for Korean

S-MINDS is a hand held, speech translation engine, which allows an English speaker to communicate with a non-English speaker easily within a question and answer, interview style format. It can handle limited dialogs such as medical triage or hospital admissions. We have been able to build an English-to-Korean medical interviews system in 4 months time. The formal system evaluation indicated a translation accuracy of 79.8% (for English) and 78.3% (for Korean) for all non-rejected utterances. In this paper, we will discuss the performance of S-MINDS as well as a complete analysis of our results including the various problems we encountered during deployment