Title :
Rapid Development of a Speech Translation System for Korean
Author :
Ehsani, Farzad ; Kimzey, Jim ; Master, Demitrios ; Park, Hunil ; Sudre, Karen
Author_Institution :
Sehda Inc., Mountain View, CA
Abstract :
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
Keywords :
language translation; natural languages; English-to-Korean medical interviews system; Korean; S-MINDS; nonEnglish speaker; speech translation system; Back; Engines; Globalization; Hospitals; Humans; Natural languages; Performance analysis; Speech; Surface-mount technology; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toulouse
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0469-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1661503
