Oasis translator's aide
Scott Shepard, Sean Colbath, Kathleen M. Egan, Francis Kubala · 2002
The Oasis Translator's Aide is a tool that increases the productivity of a human translator as they create English transcriptions from Arabic radio and TV broadcasts. The Oasis Translator's Aide is an extension of BBN's Oasis system that performs real-time indexing for browsing of broadcast news in English and Arabic. Oasis utilizes five speech and language technologies to automatically create a rich-content transcription of audio: speech recognition, speaker change detection, speaker clustering, speaker identification, and named entity extraction. This system operates in a streaming mode, recording broadcast news data off the air, performing recognition and indexing in real-time and storing the results in a database for later browsing over the Web. In this demo, we show a real-word application of an Oasis system that was deployed into the field in November 2001 as an aid for human translation of Arabic audio and video broadcasts.