Janus: A System for Translation of Conversational Speech.
Alex Waibel, Alon Lavie, Lori S. Levin · 1997
Janus is a large scale system for interactive spoken language translation that has been developed at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Karlsruhe in the course of the last seven years. The system currently accepts spontaneous conversational speech in a limited domain in English, German or Spanish and produces output in German, English, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. In this overview article of the Janus system we describe how the system has evolved over the years and developed it's current architecture. We briefly describe the current system components, summarize our system development and evaluation methods, and present some of our most recent performance evaluation results. Finally, we discuss our current efforts to significantly expand the domain of coverage of the system, and the future directions we intend to explore within the context of this project. Introduction Janus is a large scale system effort aimed at interactive spoken language translation. Janus accepts s...