A Wearable Headset Speech-to-Speech Translation System
Kriste Krstovski, Michael Decerbo, Rohit Prasad, David G. Stallard, Shirin Saleem, Prem Natarajan · 2008
In this paper we present a wearable, headset integrated eyes- and hands-free speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system. The S2S sys-tem described here is configured for translin-gual communication between English and colloquial Iraqi Arabic. It employs an n-gram speech recognition engine, a rudimentary phrase-based translator for translating recog-nized Iraqi text, and a rudimentary text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis engine for playing back the English translation. This paper de-scribes the system architecture, the functional-ity of its components, and the configurations of the speech recognition and machine transla-tion engines. 1