JANUS 93: towards spontaneous speech translation

Author

Woszczyna, M. ; Aoki-Waibel, N. ; Buø, F.D. ; Coccaro, N. ; Horiguchi, K. ; Kemp, T. ; Lavie, A. ; McNair, A. ; Polzin, T. ; Rogina, I. ; Rose, C.P. ; Schultz, T. ; Suhm, B. ; Tomita, M. ; Waibel, A.

Author_Institution

Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

i

fYear

1994

fDate

19-22 Apr 1994

Abstract

We present first results from our efforts toward translation of spontaneously spoken speech. Improvements include increasing coverage, robustness, generality and speed of JANUS, the speech-to-speech translation system of Carnegie Mellon and Karlsruhe University. The recognition and machine translation engine have been upgraded to deal with requirements introduced by spontaneous human to human dialogs. To allow for development and evaluation of our system on adequate data, a large database with spontaneous scheduling dialogs is being gathered for English, German and Spanish

Keywords

language translation; natural languages; speech recognition; Carnegie Mellon University; English; German; JANUS 93; Karlsruhe University; Spanish; coverage; database; generality; machine translation engine; recognition; robustness; speed; spontaneous human to human dialogs; spontaneous scheduling dialogs; spontaneous speech translation; Calendars; Databases; Engines; Face; Humans; Robustness; Speech synthesis; Springs; Switches; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1994. ICASSP-94., 1994 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1775-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1994.389285

Filename

389285