Osterholtz, Louise
JANUS: Speech-to-Speech Translation Using Connectionist and Non-Connectionist Techniques
Waibel, Alex, Jain, Ajay N., McNair, Arthur E., Tebelskis, Joe, Osterholtz, Louise, Saito, Hiroaki, Schmidbauer, Otto, Sloboda, Tilo, Woszczyna, Monika
JANUS translates continuously spoken English and German into German, English, and Japanese.
JANUS: Speech-to-Speech Translation Using Connectionist and Non-Connectionist Techniques
Waibel, Alex, Jain, Ajay N., McNair, Arthur E., Tebelskis, Joe, Osterholtz, Louise, Saito, Hiroaki, Schmidbauer, Otto, Sloboda, Tilo, Woszczyna, Monika
JANUS translates continuously spoken English and German into German, English, and Japanese. JANUS currently achieves 87% translation fidelity from English speech and 97% from German speech. We present the JANUS system along with comparative evaluations of its interchangeable processing components, with special emphasis on the connectionist modules.