Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable Based Assessment of Speech-to-Speech Translation Capabilities
Douglas A. Jones, Wade Shen, Brian Delaney, Martha Herzog, Timothy Anderson, Michael Emonts, Sabine Atwell, James Dirgin, Neil Granoien, Sargon Jabri, Jurgen Sottung, Timothy Hunter · 2006
Abstract • We present observations from three exercises designed to map the effective listening and speaking skills of an operator of a speech-to-speech translation system (S2S) to the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale. Such a mapping is nontrivial, but will be useful for government and military decision makers in managing expectations of S2S technology. We observed domain-dependent S2S capabilities in the ILR range of Level 0+ to Level 1, and interactive text-based machine translation in the Level 3 range. 1