French speech recognition in an automatic dictation system for translators: the transtalk project
Julie Brousseau, Caroline Drouin, George Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Roland Kühn, Yves Normandin, Pierre Plamondon · 1995
This paper describes a system designed for use by professional translators that enables them to dictate their translation. Because the speech recognizer has access to the source text as well as the spoken translation, a statistical translation model can guide recognition. This can be done in many different ways---which is best? We discuss the experiments that led to integration of the translation model in a way that improves both speed and performance. 1 Introduction The TransTalk project attempts to integrate speech recognition and machine translation in a way that makes maximal use of their complementary strengths. Professional translators often dictate their translations first and have them typed afterwards. If they dictate to a speech recognition system instead, and if that system has access to the source language text, it can use probabilistic translation models to aid recognition. For instance, if the speech recognition system is deciding between the acoustically similar French ...