The BBN 2007 displayless English/Iraqi speech-to-speech translation system

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2284-2287

  Stallard, David ^a   Choi, Fred ^a   Kao, Chia Lin ^a   Krstovski, Kriste ^a   Natarajan, Prem ^a   Prasad, Rohit ^a   Saleem, Shirin ^a   Subramanian, Krishna ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Iraqi Arabic; Speech to speech translation

Indexed keywords

ARABIC SPEECHES; HAND-CRAFTED RULES; HANDHELD; IRAQI ARABIC; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; MILITARY FORCES; MUNICIPAL SERVICES; PUSH BUTTONS; SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149114865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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