The CMU TransTac 2007 Eyes-free and Hands-free Two-way Speech-to-Speech Translation System
Nguyễn Bách, Matthias Eck, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Thilo Köhler, Sebastian Stüker, ThuyLinh Nguyen, Roger Wend-Huu Hsiao, Alex Waibel, Stephan Vogel, Tanja Schultz, Alan W. Black · Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) · 2007
The paper describes our portable two-way speech-tospeech translation system using a completely eyesfree/hands-free user interface. This system translates between the language pair English and Iraqi Arabic as well as between English and Farsi, and was built within the framework of the DARPA TransTac program. The Farsi language support was developed within a 90-day period, testing our ability to rapidly support new languages. The paper gives an overview of the system’s components along with the individual component objective measures and a discussion of issues relevant for the overall usage of the system. We found that usability, flexibility, and robustness serve as severe constraints on system architecture and design. 1.