Towards speech translation of non written languages

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 222-225

  Besacier, Laurent ^b   Zhou, Bowen ^a   Gao, Yuqing ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Non written languages; Speech to speech translation; Unsupervised word discovery

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SETS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

LANGUAGES (TRADITIONAL); PARALLEL CORPORA; PHONE BASED APPROACH; SPEECH TRANSLATION; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; TRANSLATION MODELS;

QUERY LANGUAGES; TELEPHONE SETS;

CONDITION; LARGE AMOUNTS; NON WRITTEN LANGUAGE; PARALLEL CORPORA; PHONE-BASED; SPEECH TRANSLATION; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION MODELS; UNSUPERVISED WORD DISCOVERY; WORD DISCOVERIES;

EID: 48749106056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2006.326795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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