Translation and Prosody in Swiss Languages
Philip N. Garner, Rob Clark, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Pierre-Edouard Honnet, Maria V. Ivanova, Alexandros Lazaridis, Hui Ping Liang, Beat Pfister, Manuel Sam Ribeiro, Éric Wehrli, Junichi Yamagishi · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 2014
The SIWIS project aims to investigate spoken language translation, where both the speaker characteristics and prosody are translated.This means the translation carries not only spoken content, but also speaker identification, emotion and intent.We describe the background of the project, and present some initial approaches and results.These include the design and collection of a Swiss bilingual database that both enables research in Swiss accented speech processing, and facilitates reliable evaluation.