Recent improvements in BBN's english/iraqi speech-to-speech translation system

2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 245-248

  Choi, Fred ^a   Tsakalidis, Stavros ^a   Saleem, Shirin ^a   Kao, Chia Lin ^a   Meermeier, Ralf ^a   Krstovski, Kriste ^a   Moran, Christine ^a   Subramanian, Krishna ^a   Stallard, David ^a   Prasad, Rohit ^a   Natarajan, Prem ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic speech recognition; Dialog systems; Speech to speech translation

Indexed keywords

ARABIC SPEECH; ARABIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIALOG SYSTEMS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; ENGLISH WORD; FEATURE TRANSFORMATIONS; HIGHER ORDER; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MULTIPLE ALIGNMENT; N-GRAMS; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; PRE-PROCESSING; SEMANTIC CLASS; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; TARGET LANGUAGE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); USER INTERFACES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67649509435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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