The NESPOLE! speech-to-speech translation system
Florian Metze, Tanja Schultz, F. Pianesi, Roldano Cattoni, Gianni Lazzari, Nadia Mana, Emanuele Pianta, J. McDonough, Hagen Soltau, Alex Waibel, Alon Lavie, Susanne Burger, Chad Langley, Kornel Laskowski, Lori S. Levin · 2002
This paper describes the first showcase of the NESPOLE! system. NESPOLE! is a speech-to-speech machine translation system designed to provide fully functional speech-to-speech capabilities within real-world settings of common users involved in e-commerce applications. The project is a collaboration between three European research laboratories (IRST in Trento, Italy; ISL at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany; and CLIPS at Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France), one US research group (ISL at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA) and two industrial partners (APT; Trento, Italy - the Trentino provincial tourism board, and Aethra; Ancona, Italy - a tele-communications company). The project is funded jointly by the European Commission and the US' NSF.