Title :
Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation System: VoiceTra
Author :
Matsuda, Shodai ; Xinhui Hu ; Shiga, Yoshinori ; Kashioka, Hideki ; Hori, Chiori ; Yasuda, Kazuhiro ; Okuma, Hideo ; Uchiyama, Masaru ; Sumita, Eiichiro ; Kawai, Hiroyuki ; Nakamura, Shigenari
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Universal Commun. Res. Inst., Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
This study presents an overview of VoiceTra, which was developed by NICT and released as the world´s first network-based multilingual speech-to-speech translation system for smartphones, and describes in detail its multilingual speech recognition, its multilingual translation, and its multilingual speech synthesis in regards to field experiments. We show the effects of system updates using the data collected from field experiments to improve our acoustic and language models.
Keywords :
language translation; natural language processing; smart phones; speech recognition; speech synthesis; NICT; VoiceTra; acoustic models; language models; multilingual speech recognition; multilingual speech synthesis; network-based multilingual speech-to-speech translation system; smartphones; Acoustics; Adaptation models; Hidden Markov models; Speech; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Milan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6068-5
DOI :
10.1109/MDM.2013.99
