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Speech-to-Speech Translation

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Computer Science Book Series

Editors: Kidawara, Yutaka; Sumita, Eiichiro; Kawai, Hisashi

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-0595-9

ISBN: 978-981-15-0594-2

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Nov 23, 2019

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Multilingualization of Speech Processing

Kato, Hiroaki; Harada, Shoji; Kitade, Tasuku; Shiga, Yoshinori

Pages: 1 –20

[Speech-to-speech translation is a technology that connects people of different languages together and its multilingualization dramatically expands the circle of people connected. “Population” in Table 1.1a shows the potential number of people who can be part of the circle, when the corresponding...
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Automatic Speech Recognition

Lu, Xugang; Li, Sheng; Fujimoto, Masakiyo

Pages: 21 –38

[The main task of automatic speech recognition (ASR) is to convert voice signals to text transcriptions. It is one of the most important research fields in natural language processing (NLP). With more than a half century of endeavor, the word error rate (WER), which is a metric unit for...
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Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Shiga, Yoshinori; Ni, Jinfu; Tachibana, Kentaro; Okamoto, Takuma

Pages: 39 –52

[The recent progress of text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) technology has allowed computers to read any written text aloud with voice that is artificial but almost indistinguishable from real human speech. Such improvement in the quality of synthetic speech has expanded the application of the TTS...
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Language Translation

Imamura, Kenji

Pages: 53 –66

[This chapter introduces the machine translation part. Machine translation (or text-to-text translation) is one component of speech translation and is used for translating automatic speech recognition (ASR) output into text-to-speech (TTS) input. This section will also explain about neural...
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Field Experiment System “VoiceTra”

Ashikari, Yutaka; Kawai, Hisashi

Pages: 67 –75

[This chapter introduces “VoiceTra,” a speech-to-speech translation system which utilizes the technologies introduced in the previous chapters. VoiceTra’s client application has been released as to the public as a field experiment and has marked a total of 3,921,186 downloads and has collected as...
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Measuring the Capability of a Speech Translation System

Sugaya, Fumiaki; Yasuda, Keiji

Pages: 77 –85

[This chapter introduces an evaluation method for speech translation systems. Since the method estimates the system’s capability in a commonly known English proficiency measurement score such as TOEIC, the evaluation results are very comprehensible not only for researchers but also for system...
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The Future of Speech-to-Speech Translation

Sumita, Eiichiro

Pages: 87 –91

[Since English is very different from Japanese in terms of grammar and vocabulary, it is not an easy task (http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty) for a native English speaker to learn Japanese, and vice versa. Only a small number of native Japanese speakers...

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