Janus-III: speech-to-speech translation in multiple languages

This paper describes JANUS-III, our most recent version of the JANUS speech-to-speech translation system. We present an overview of the system and focus on how system design facilitates speech translation between multiple languages, and allows for easy adaptation to new source and target languages....

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Main Authors: Lavie, A., Waibel, A., Levin, L., Finke, M., Gates, D., Gavalda, M., Zeppenfeld, T., Puming Zhan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Computer science
control theory
systems
Context modeling
Decoding
Exact sciences and technology
Face recognition
Information, signal and communications theory
Interactive systems
Laboratories
Natural languages
Processor scheduling
Robustness
Signal processing
Speech and sound recognition and synthesis. Linguistics
Speech processing
Speech recognition
System performance
Telecommunications and information theory
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Summary:This paper describes JANUS-III, our most recent version of the JANUS speech-to-speech translation system. We present an overview of the system and focus on how system design facilitates speech translation between multiple languages, and allows for easy adaptation to new source and target languages. We also describe our methodology for evaluation of end-to-end system performance with a variety of source and target languages. For system development and evaluation, we have experimented with both push-to-talk as well as cross-talk recording conditions. To date, our system has achieved performance levels of over 80% acceptable translations on transcribed input, and over 70% acceptable translations on speech input recognized with a 75-90% word accuracy. Our current major research is concentrated on enhancing the capabilities of the system to deal with input in broad and general domains.
ISSN:1520-6149
2379-190X
DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.1997.599557