Hybrid Connectionist and Classical Approaches in JANUS. An Advanced Speech-to-Speech Translation System
Alex Waibel, Thomas Polzin, Ulrich Bodenhausen, Buø, F. D., Noah Coccaro, Hermann Hild, Suhm, B. · 1994
In this paper we report on our efforts to combine speech and language processing toward multi-lingual spontaneous speech translation. The ongoing work extends our JANUS system effort toward handling spontaneous spoken discourse and multiple languages. After an overview of the task, databases, and the system architecture we will focus on how connectionist modules are integrated in the overall system design. We will show that these modules can because of their learning capabilities adapt themselves to the problem space. Moreover, because of their inherent robustness against noise they seem to be an adequate tool for analyzing spontaneous speech.