Presented by-
Kh. Santosh Singh

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What is MASTOR ?
• Speech-to-speech translation system
• Translate spontaneous free-form speech in Real-Time
• Applicable in Laptops and hand-held PDAs.
• Supports multiple languages
General Framework
 ASR – Automatic Speech Recognition
 MT – Machine Translation
 TTS – Text To Speech
Speech Translation
 NLU/NLG based Speech Translation
 Fast and Memory Efficient Translation using SIPL
Note:
• NLU – Natural Language Understanding
• NLG – Natural Language Generation
• WFST – Weighted Finite-State Transducer
• SIPL – Statistical Integrated Phrase Lattices
Applications
Some popular STS available on handheld devices:
 NEC Speech Translation System
 Babylon
 Speechlator
Challenges
 Linguistic and communicative quality of the translations
 Embedding complicated Algorithms and Programs into small devices for mobile users.
Advantages
 Travelling
 Business Networking
 Globalization of Social Networking
 Learning a foreign language