Differences Among English – Arabic Simultaneous Interpreters in Interpreting Trump’s Inaugural Speech in Washington

the most important demotivating factors among efl teachers in private english language institutes in mashhad

just as motivation is important in sla research, demotivation constitutes an important factor, too. there are many studies done on demotivation and burnout of teachers. many of these studies have been conducted on one or two aspects of english instruction. consequently, there are few studies which have been done on more than two aspects of english teaching. the aim of this study is to find out ...

An empirical study of pauses in Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting

Interpreting Unit Segmentation of Conversational Speech in Simultaneous Interpretation Corpus

The speech-to-speech translation system is becoming an important research topic with the progress of the speech and language processing technology. Considering efficiency and the smoothness of the cross-lingual conversation, the simultaneity of the translation processing has a great influence on the performance of the system. This paper describes interpreting unit segmentation of conversational...

Better dual-task processing in simultaneous interpreters

Simultaneous interpreting (SI) is a highly complex activity and requires the performance and coordination of multiple, simultaneous tasks: analysis and understanding of the discourse in a first language, reformulating linguistic material, storing of intermediate processing steps, and language production in a second language among others. It is, however, an open issue whether persons with experi...

Recent advances in SRI'S IraqCommTM Iraqi Arabic-English speech-to-speech translation system

We summarize recent progress on SRI’s IraqCommTM Iraqi Arabic-English two-way speech-to-speech translation system. In the past year we made substantial developments in our speech recognition and machine translation technology, leading to significant improvements in both accuracy and speed of the IraqComm system. On the 2008 NIST-evaluation dataset our twoway speech-to-text (S2T) system achieved...