BBN TransTalk: Robust multilingual two-way speech-to-speech translation for mobile platforms

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 475-491

  Prasad, Rohit ^a   Natarajan, Prem ^a   Stallard, David ^a   Saleem, Shirin ^a   Ananthakrishnan, Shankar ^a   Tsakalidis, Stavros ^a   Kao, Chia Lin ^a   Choi, Fred ^a   Meermeier, Ralf ^a   Rawls, Mark ^a   Devlin, Jacob ^a   Krstovski, Kriste ^a   Challenner, Aaron ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Dialog management; Speech to speech translation; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DATA SPARSITY; DIALOG MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTIC RESOURCES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MOBILE PLATFORM; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TEXT TO SPEECH; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; TWO WAY COMMUNICATIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LINGUISTICS; MANAGERS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; USER INTERFACES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84870253820     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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