Rapid Development of an English/Farsi Speech-to-Speech Translation System

2008 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 166-173

  Kao, C L ^a   Saleem, S ^a   Prasad, R ^a   Choi, F ^a   Natarajan, P ^a   Stallard, D ^a   Krstovski, K ^a   Kamali, M ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS MODEL; BILINGUALS; FARSI LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE PAIRS; LOW RESOURCE LANGUAGES; SPEECH TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 77949377290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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