Speech translation on a tight budget without enough data

Authors:
Robert E. Frederking;Alan W. Black;Ralf D. Brown;Alexander Rudnicky;John Moody;Eric Steinbrecher
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University;Carnegie Mellon University;Carnegie Mellon University;Carnegie Mellon University;Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, New York;Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, New York
Venue:
S2S '02 Proceedings of the ACL-02 workshop on Speech-to-speech translation: algorithms and systems - Volume 7
Year:
2002

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Abstract

The Tongues speech-to-speech translation system was developed for the US Army chaplains, with fairly stringent constraints on time, budget, and available data. The resulting prototype was required to undergo a quite realistic field test. We describe the development and architecture of the system, the field test, and our analysis of its results. The system performed quite well, especially given its development constraints.