Title :
Testing generality in JANUS: a multi-lingual speech translation system
Author :
Osterholtz, Louise ; Augustine, Charles ; McNair, Arthur ; Rogina, Ivica ; Saito, Hiroaki ; Sloboda, Tilo ; Tebelskis, Joe ; Waibel, Alex
Author_Institution :
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
For speech translation to be practical and useful, speech translation systems should be portable to multiple languages without substantial modification. The authors present results of expanding the English-based JANUS speech translation system to translate from spoken German sentences to English and Japanese utterances. The authors also report the results of implementing part of the linked predictive neural network (LPNN) speech recognition module on a massively parallel machine. The JANUS approach generalizes well, with overall system performance of 97%. This surpasses English-based JANUS performance
Keywords :
language translation; natural languages; neural nets; speech recognition equipment; German to English translation; German to Japanese translation; JANUS; LPNN speech recognition module; generality; linked predictive neural network; multilingual speech translations system; performance; spoken German sentences; Computational linguistics; Computer science; Databases; Natural languages; Neural networks; Parallel machines; Predictive models; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1992. ICASSP-92., 1992 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0532-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1992.225935
