Recent advances in SRI'S IraqComm™ Iraqi Arabic-English speech-to-speech translation system
Murat Akbacak, Horacio Franco, Michael Frandsen, Saša Hasan, Huda Farooq Jameel, Andreas Kathol, Shahram Khadivi, Xin Lei, Arindam Mandal, Saab Mansour, Kristin Precoda, Colleen Richey, Dimitra Vergyri, Wen Wang, Mei Yang, Jing Wen Zheng · 2009
We summarize recent progress on SRI's IraqCommtrade Iraqi Arabic-English two-way speech-to-speech translation system. In the past year we made substantial developments in our speech recognition and machine translation technology, leading to significant improvements in both accuracy and speed of the IraqComm system. On the 2008 NIST-evaluation dataset our twoway speech-to-text (S2T) system achieved 6% to 8% absolute improvement in BLEU in both directions, compared to our previous year system.