Lexicon and Corpora for Speech to Speech Translation (LC-STAR)

The objective of the EU-project LC-STAR (Lexica and Corpora for Speech-to-Speech Translation Components) is corpora collection and lexica creation for the purposes of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-speech (TTS) that are needed in speech-to-speech translation (SST). During the lifetime of the project (2002-2005) these lexica will be specified, built and validated. Large lexica consisting of phonetic, prosodic and morpho-syntactic content will be provided with welldocumented specifications for at least 13 languages [1]. This project description provides a short overview of the speech-to-speech translation lexica in general as well as a summary of the LC-STAR project itself