Transonics: A Practical Speech-to-Speech Translator for English-Farsi Medical Dialogs
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چکیده
We briefly describe a two-way speech-tospeech English-Farsi translation system prototype developed for use in doctorpatient interactions. The overarching philosophy of the developers has been to create a system that enables effective communication, rather than focusing on maximizing component-level performance. The discussion focuses on the general approach and evaluation of the system by an independent government evaluation team.
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