Some approaches to statistical and finite-state speech-to-speech translation

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-47

  Casacuberta, F ^a   Ney, H ^b   Och, F J ^b   Vidal, E ^a   Vilar, J M ^c   Barrachina, S ^c   Garcia Varea I ^a   Llorens, D ^c   Martinez C ^a   Molau, S ^b   Nevado, F ^a   Pastor, M ^a   Pico D ^a   Sanchis, A ^a   Tillmann, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Speech input translation; Statistical alignment models; Stochastic finite state transducers

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSDUCERS;

SPEECH-INPUT TRANSLATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0346500491     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2308(03)00028-7     Document Type: Article

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