Speech and Translation Technologies
Mark Seligman · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2023
Cross-language communication in healthcare is urgently needed. However, while development of the relevant linguistic technologies and related infrastructure has been accelerating, widespread adoption of translation- and speech-enabled systems remains slow. This chapter examines obstacles to adoption and directions for overcoming them, with emphasis on reliability and customization issues; discusses two major types of speech translation systems and their respective approaches to the same obstacles; surveys some healthcare-oriented communication systems, past and future; and concludes with an optimistic forecast for speech and translation applications in healthcare, tempered by due cautions.