Efficient speech translation through confusion network decoding

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1696-1705

  Bertoldi, Nicola ^a   Zens, Richard ^b,c   Federico, Marcello ^a   Shen, Wade ^d  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confusion network decoder; Speech translation

Indexed keywords

AS INTERFACES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONFUSION NETWORK DECODER; DECODING ALGORITHM; DECODING EFFICIENCY; EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SPEECH TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

DECODING;

EID: 70350568323     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2002054     Document Type: Article

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