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Title Speech-to-speech translation / Yutaka Kidawara, Eiichiro Sumita, Hisashi Kawai, editors
Published Singapore : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 91 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series SpringerBriefs in computer science, 2191-5768
SpringerBriefs in computer science, 2191-5768
Contents 1. Multilingualization of Speech Processing -- 2. Automatic Speech Recognition -- 3. Text-to-Speech Synthesis -- 4. Language Translation -- 5. Field Experiment System "VoiceTra" -- 6. Measuring the Capability of a Speech Translation System -- 7. The Future of Speech-to-Speech Translation
Summary This book provides the readers with retrospective and prospective views with detailed explanations of component technologies, speech recognition, language translation and speech synthesis. Speech-to-speech translation system (S2S) enables to break language barriers, i.e., communicate each other between any pair of person on the glove, which is one of extreme dreams of humankind. People, society, and economy connected by S2S will demonstrate explosive growth without exception. In 1986, Japan initiated basic research of S2S, then the idea spread world-wide and were explored deeply by researchers during three decades. Now, we see S2S application on smartphone/tablet around the world. Computational resources such as processors, memories, wireless communication accelerate this computation-intensive systems and accumulation of digital data of speech and language encourage recent approaches based on machine learning. Through field experiments after long research in laboratories, S2S systems are being well-developed and now ready to utilized in daily life. Unique chapter of this book is end-2-end evaluation by comparing systems performance and human competence. The effectiveness of the system would be understood by the score of this evaluation. The book will end with one of the next focus of S2S will be technology of simultaneous interpretation for lecture, broadcast news and so on
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 26, 2019)
Subject Automatic speech recognition.
Machine translating.
Natural language processing (Computer science)
Natural Language Processing
Automatic speech recognition
Machine translating
Natural language processing (Computer science)
Form Electronic book
Author Kidawara, Yutaka, editor.
Sumita, Eiichiro, editor
Kawai, Hisashi, editor
ISBN 9789811505959
9811505950