Abstract

In this paper, we describe the first phase of development of our speech-to-speech system between English and Modem Persian under the DARPA Babylon program. We give an overview of the various system components: the front end ASR, the machine translation system and the speech generation system. Challenges such as the sparseness of available spoken language data and solutions that have been employed to maximize the obtained benefits from using these limited resources are examined. Efforts in the creation of the user interface and the underlying dialog management system for mediated communication are described.

Date

2003

Authors

S Narayanan, S Ananthakrishnan, R Belvin, E Ettaile, S Ganjavi, PG Georgiou, CM Hein, S Kadambe, K Knight, D Marcu, HE Neely, N Srinivasamurthy, D Traum, D Wang

Conference

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (IEEE Cat. No. 03EX721)

Pages

670-675

Publisher

IEEE