Challenges with rapid adaptation of speech translation systems to new language pairs

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Schultz, Tanja ^a   Black, Alan W ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL ISSUES; SPEAKERS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION MODELS;

LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 33947643681     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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