Research Opportunities In Automatic Speech-To-Speech Translation
Sebastian Stüker, T. Herrmann, Muntsin Kolss, Jan Niehues, Matthias Wölfel · IEEE Potentials · 2012
Over the last decades, the process of globalization has brought dramatic changes to the way the world interacts. Fast and affordable long-range transportation has brought an unprecedented mobility to people—pofessionals and tourists alike. The removal of trade barriers has lead to the establishment of an international market in which huge quantities of goods flow between different countries. The technological revolution on the communication and information sector has enabled instant interaction between every conceivable part of the world. By extending the network that once started as a telecommunication network to an omnipresent data network in the form of the Internet, people were given the capability to instantly access huge amounts of information in all countries of the world.