30-04-2011, 03:44 PM
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
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