Akira Kurematsu
Automatic Telephone Interpretation: A Basic Study
Abstract:The Automatic Telephone Interpretation system is envisaged as a facility for
enabling a person speaking in one language to communicate readily by telephone
with someone speaking in a different language. It will do so by automatically
transforming the dialog content from one speaker's language to that of the listner's,
as it is being spoken. Three constituent technologies are necessary for
construction of such a system: speech recognition, machine translation, and
speech synthesis. In this report, an outline of research tasks and research
approach for these fundamental technologies is presented.