Speech-to-Speech Translation Activities in Thailand
Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Thepchai Supnithi, Krit Kosawat · 2008
A speech-to-speech translation project (S2S) has been conducted since 2006 by the Human Language Technology laboratory at the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) in Thailand. During the past one year, there happened a lot of activities regarding technologies constituted for S2S, including automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine translation (MT), text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), as well as technology for language resource and fundamental tool development. A developed prototype of English-to-Thai S2S has opened several research issues, which has been taken into consideration. This article intensively reports all major research and development activities and points out remaining issues for the rest two years of the project.