Title :
JANUS 93: towards spontaneous speech translation
Author :
Woszczyna, M. ; Aoki-Waibel, N. ; Buø, F.D. ; Coccaro, N. ; Horiguchi, K. ; Kemp, T. ; Lavie, A. ; McNair, A. ; Polzin, T. ; Rogina, I. ; Rose, C.P. ; Schultz, T. ; Suhm, B. ; Tomita, M. ; Waibel, A.
Author_Institution :
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
We present first results from our efforts toward translation of spontaneously spoken speech. Improvements include increasing coverage, robustness, generality and speed of JANUS, the speech-to-speech translation system of Carnegie Mellon and Karlsruhe University. The recognition and machine translation engine have been upgraded to deal with requirements introduced by spontaneous human to human dialogs. To allow for development and evaluation of our system on adequate data, a large database with spontaneous scheduling dialogs is being gathered for English, German and Spanish
Keywords :
language translation; natural languages; speech recognition; Carnegie Mellon University; English; German; JANUS 93; Karlsruhe University; Spanish; coverage; database; generality; machine translation engine; recognition; robustness; speed; spontaneous human to human dialogs; spontaneous scheduling dialogs; spontaneous speech translation; Calendars; Databases; Engines; Face; Humans; Robustness; Speech synthesis; Springs; Switches; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1994. ICASSP-94., 1994 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1775-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1994.389285
