Computer-assisted translation using speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 941-950

  Vidal, Enrique ^a   Casacuberta, Francisco ^a   Rodríguez, Luis ^a   Civera, Jorge ^a   Hinarejos, Carlos D Martínez ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE INFORMÁTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer assisted translation (CAT); Speech recognition; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR CORRECTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TRANSLATION (CAT); DICTATION; HUMAN TRANSLATORS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 34047249083     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.857788     Document Type: Article

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