Initial Considerations in Building a Speech-to-Speech Translation System for the Slovenian-English Language Pair
Aleš Mihelič, France Mihelič, Simon Dobrišek, T. Korošec, Tomaž Erjavec, Miro Romih · 2005
The paper presents the design concept of the VoiceTRAN Communicator that in- tegrates speech recognition, machine translation and text-to-speech synthesis using the DARPA Galaxy architecture. The aim of the project is to build a robust multimodal speech-to-speech translation communicator able to translate simple domain-specific sentences in the Slove- nian-English language pair. The project represents a joint collaboration between several Slovenian research organizations that are active in human language technologies. We pro- vide an overview of the task, describe the system architecture and individual servers. Fur- ther we describe the language resources that will be used and developed within the project. We conclude the paper with plans for evaluation of the VoiceTRAN Communicator.