JANUS: a Multi-lingual Speech-to-speech Translation System for Spontaneously Spoken Language in a Limited Domain
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چکیده
Janus is a multilingual speech translation system currently operating in the domain of meeting scheduling. Translating spontaneous speech requires a high degree of robustness to overcome the dissuencies of spoken language as well as errors in speech recognition. In this system description, we focus on the robust speech translation components in Janus|the skipping GLR* parser, the segmentation of full utterances into semantic dialogue units (SDUs), and the late-stage disambigua-tion of utterances. We will also describe how the end-to-end translation performance of the system is evaluated and present our latest Spanish-to-English evaluation results.
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