Speech to Speech Translation Systems Survey

visited since May 2007.
System Participants SystemType / Sponsor Senario LanguagePair Speech Recognition Machine Translation Speech Synthesis Coupling Vocabulary Publications Demo(mirror)
Jibbigo Voice Translator for iPhone Jibbigo.com Consumer / iphone application Travel, medical assistance English -> Spanish
Pandora Statistical Machine Translation Engine



video demo
AT&T "How may I help you" (1996) AT&T     Spanish<->English, Japanese<->English   Stochastic Finite-state model     1200/1300
AT&T Anuvaad AT&T   conference registration; instant messenger Sanskrit              
Verbmobil-German (1993-2000) UKA, RWTH, et al,     German, English, Japanese   Multi-engine     10000/2500   
Janus

I: 1992-95
II: 1996
III: 1997-

CMU   Hotel reservation /  flight / train tickets booking     Interlingua     open  
Lodestar(1999) NLPR/CAS   Hotel reservation / travel information Chinese<->Japanese Chinese<->English   Multi-engine     2000  
DmTrans CMU                    
DmDialog CMU                    
DIPLOMAT / TONGUES CMU                    
MASTOR IBM   DARPA force protection English->Chinese   stat, decision-tree based parser : sem/syn rep. (interlingua), ME for NLG  IBM trainable TTS Loose / uncoupled  
Nespole! CMU, ITC-irst, UKA, UJF, AETHRA, Trentino                
Matrix (1998-2001) ATR, Japan   Hotel reservation Japanese, English, German, etc.   EBMT / Pattern-based  CHATR   2000  
NEC (on PDA) NEC   PDA/travel Japanese<->English HMM ??
Grammar / transfer
commercial system  Loose several 10k  
LC-Star (2002) RWTH, IBM et al.                  
PF-STAR ITC-irst, RWTH et al
TC-STAR_P IBM, ITC-irst, RWTH, UKA, UPC, ....
Babylon-SRI     SRI   PDA English<->Pashto DynaSpeak rule-based interlingua Festival      
Speechlator (part of Babylon) CMU     English<->Egyptian Arabic HMM (MTI) interlingual (knowledge or statistical) Cepstral's Theta      
EuTrans  UPV et al research tourist Italian, Spanish, English   EBMT (subsequential transducers)   Integrated

(ASR+MT)

  Demo (link)
MIT Lincoln Lab research / DARPA military/defense Korean<->English HMM Interlingual Festival English TTS      
LASER                    
PanDA/PanDoRA InterACT, CMU research/TransTac, DARPA Force protection; tourists Iraqi<->English; Japanese<->English, Chinese<->English, Spanish<->English, Thai<->English Janus Full scale phrase based statistical machine translation with reordering Festival TTS uncoupled
Phraselator Marine Acoustics, VoxTec,  ADS commercial / Army Military   SRI        
Digital Olympics China/EU
Matsushita Research Institute, Japan   PDA              
spokentranslation.com                    
P.S.G. College of Technology, Peelamedu, India     Tamil<->English            
Wearable Computers Lab, CMU                  
Netdecisions Tech Center, UK                  
TALP-Spain                  
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories                  

 

 

 


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