Interactive translation of conversational speech

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Authors Alex Waibel

Publication date 5 June 2000

zbMATH Keywords

interactive spoken language translationJANUS-II

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern recognition, speech recognition (68T10) Theory of languages and software systems (knowledge-based systems, expert systems, etc.) for artificial intelligence (68T35) Natural language processing (68T50)

Review text

The aim of the paper is to describe JANUS-II, a large scale system devoted to interactive spoken language translation. JANUS-II operates now on spontaneous conversational human-to-human dialogs in limited domains with vocabularies of around 3000+ words. At present, the system accepts English, German, or Spanish input and delivers translations into German, English, Spanish, Japanese or Korean. Further languages are under development. Application of statistical, contextual, prosodic and discourse constraints permits a progressively narrowing search for the most plausible interpretation of an utterance. During translation, JANUS-II produces translations that are used for interactive correction of translation errors. Along with the efforts to improve JANUS-II robustness and accuracy, several system prototypes have been implemented to explore translation needs in different settings: speech translation in one-on-one video conferencing, a portable mobile interpreter, or as passive simultaneous conversation translator. The usability and performance of these systems are discussed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00044].

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