Large lexica for speech-to-speech translation: from specification to creation
Elviira Hartikainen, Giulio Maltese, Asunción Moreno, Shaunie Shammass, Ute Ziegenhain · 2003
This paper presents the corpora collection and lexica creation for the purposes of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-speech (TTS) that are needed in speech-to-speech translation (SST).These lexica will be specified, built and validated within the scope of the EU-project LC-STAR (Lexica and Corpora for Speech-to-Speech Translation Components) during the years 2002-2005.Large lexica consisting of phonetic, prosodic and morpho-syntactic content will be provided with well-documented specifications for at least 12 languages [1].This paper provides a short overview of the speech-to-speech translation lexica in general as well as a summary of the LC-STAR project itself.More detailed information about the specification for the corpora collection and word extraction as well as the specification and format of the lexica are presented in later chapters.