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Japanese/Chinese/English Six-Directional Speech-to-Speech Translator for dynapocket™
Toshiba has developed a speech-to-speech translation application that runs on its dynapocket smartphone. This application can translate users’ speech input in all six directions among Japanese, Chinese, and English. Many of our state-of-the-art technologies have been utilized and downsized for this system, including
- (1) scalable, noise-tolerant, large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition;
- (2) forest-driven spoken language translation capable of handling ambiguities in spoken language;
- (3) highly accurate statistical machine translation; and
- (4) plural unit selection and fusion modelbased speech synthesis.
This application can serve as a reliable partner for overseas travelers who cannot speak foreign languages.It was selected by U.S. independent writers as a finalist for the Innovation Award at CEATEC JAPAN 2009.
Speech-to-speech translator running on dynapocket
translating Chinese speech into English