High-quality speech-to-speech translation for computer-aided language learning

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-21

  Wang, Chao ^a,b   Seneff, Stephanie ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided language learning; Dialogue systems; Machine translation; Speech translation

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

COMPUTER-AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSLATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 33746864431     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1149290.1149291     Document Type: Review

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