Corporate Research & Development Center

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. (1) scalable, noise-tolerant, large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition;
  2. (2) forest-driven spoken language translation capable of handling ambiguities in spoken language;
  3. (3) highly accurate statistical machine translation; and
  4. (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

Speech-to-speech translator running on dynapocket
translating Chinese speech into English