The spoken language translator (Q2736229)

The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEFrom the introduction: This book presents a detailed description of the Spoken Language Translator (SLT), one of the first major projects in the area of automatic speech translation. The SLT system can translate among English, French, and Swedish in the domain of air travel planning, with an accuracy of about 75 percent. The greater part of the book describes the language processing components, which are built on top of the SRI Core Language Engine and which use a combination of general grammars and techniques that allow them to be rapidly customized to specific domains. Speech recognition is based on Hidden Markov Model technology and uses versions of the SRI DECIPHER\(^{\text{TM}}\) system.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThis account of the SLT is an essential resource both for those who wish to know what is achievable in spoken language translation today, and for those who wish to understand how to achieve it.