Name aware speech-to-speech translation for english/iraqi

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 249-252

  Prasad, Rohit ^a   Moran, Christine ^a   Choi, Fred ^a   Meermeier, Ralf ^a   Saleem, Shirin ^a   Kao, Chia Lin ^a   Stallard, Dave ^a   Natarajan, Prem ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Entity detection; Machine translation; Name transliteration; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ENTITY DETECTION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NAME TRANSLITERATION; NAMED ENTITIES; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; TEST SETS; TEXT INPUT;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SYNTACTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67649512396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777887     Document Type: Conference Paper

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