Real-time speaker adapted speech to speech translation system in mobile environment

Author

Guan, Yong ; Zheng, Lin ; Tian, Jilei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Post & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

24-28 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

577

Lastpage

580

Abstract

In this paper, a real-time speech to speech translation (S2ST) system in mobile environment is designed and implemented as a client-server architecture. Particularly, we apply cross lingual speaker adaptation to adapt synthesized speech to enrolling speaker to ensure personalization. This realtime S2ST system provides streaming way, multi-threading and speaker adapted speech to speech translation for mobile user. It makes it available that mobile users get personalized real-time S2ST service through 3G/WIFI network in mobile environment.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; client-server systems; language translation; mobile radio; speech synthesis; wireless LAN; 3G; S2ST; WiFi; client-server architecture; cross lingual speaker adaptation; mobile environment; mobile users; real-time speaker; speech synthesis; speech to speech translation system; Adaptation model; Engines; Mobile communication; Real time systems; Servers; Speech; Speech recognition; AMR coding; cross lingual speaker adaptation; mobile application; speaker adaptation; speech to speech translation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing (ICSP), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5897-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOSP.2010.5656047

Filename

5656047