Title :
Transonics: a speech to speech system for English-Persian interactions
Author :
Narayanan, S. ; Ananthakrishnan, S. ; Belvin, R. ; Ettaile, E. ; Ganjavi, S. ; Georgiou, P.G. ; Hein, C.M. ; Kadambe, Shubha ; Knight, K. ; Marcu, D. ; Neely, H.E. ; Srinivasamurthy, N. ; Traum, D. ; Wang, D.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
30 Nov.-3 Dec. 2003
Abstract :
In this paper, we describe the first phase of development of our speech-to-speech system between English and Modem Persian under the DARPA Babylon program. We give an overview of the various system components: the front end ASR, the machine translation system and the speech generation system. Challenges such as the sparseness of available spoken language data and solutions that have been employed to maximize the obtained benefits from using these limited resources are examined. Efforts in the creation of the user interface and the underlying dialog management system for mediated communication are described.
Keywords :
language translation; speech recognition equipment; speech synthesis; speech-based user interfaces; English-Persian interactions; English-Persian translation system; dialog management system; front end ASR; machine translation system; mediated communication; speech generation system; speech to speech system; spoken language data sparseness; transonics; user interface; Automatic speech recognition; Broadcasting; Graphical user interfaces; Laboratories; Loudspeakers; Modems; Natural languages; Switches; User interfaces; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2003. ASRU '03. 2003 IEEE Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7980-2
DOI :
10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318520
