Cover: Accessing the world
- Beyond the Barriers of Linguistics and Culture
Spotlight
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Interview with Cr. Makoto Nagao
Special Report
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Enabling Global Communication Using Spoken Language
Dr. Victor Zue
9
New Labs
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Aiming at Robust and Flexible Speech Translation Technology for Real World Applications
Seiichi Yamamoto, President
ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
14
ISD－Schanze Toward the Next Stage of ATR
Masanobu Higashida, Director
ATR International, Information Sciences division
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Current at ATR
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Reproducing the Reality of the Appearance and Motions of Natural Scenes in Virtual Worlds
Modeling and Animating Botanical Trees from Real Images
Tatsumi Sakaguchi and Jun Ohya
21
Development of Walk-through Sensation Display Equipment ATLAS
Tel-e-Merge: Communications for "I wish you were here"
Haruo Noma and Tsutomu Miyasato
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Basic Research on Speech Translation Technologies
Seiichi Yamamoto
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Natural Speech Recognition
Yoshinori Sagisaka
30
Prosody Interpretation and Speech Synthesis
Nick Campbell
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Studying the Characteristics of Conversational Language, and Embodying these in an Automatic Interpreting Device
Implementation of Transfer-Driven Machine Translation
Satoshi Shirai
34
Research into Integration of Speech and Language Processing
Intergation of Translation System for Spontaneous Speech
Akio Yokoo
36
C-STAR International Joint Experiment toward Interpreting Telecommunications
Akio Yokoo, Toshiyuki Takazawa, and Seiichi Yamamoto
38
Scientific Inquiry: Improving English Listening and Pronunciation Skills
Reiko Akahane-Yamada
42
Understanding the Mechanism for Space Perception
Hirohiko Kaneko
45
An Adaptive QoS Control Telecommunications Platform Based on Cooperation of Layered Multi-Agents
Nagao Ogino, Masakatsu Kosuga, Tatsuya Yamazaki, and Jun Matsuda
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Lateral p-n Junctions: Original Concept in Optoelectronic Devices
Pablo O. Vaccaro
52
ATR Current Main Events & Schedule
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Exhibitions
58
Product Report
60
Patent Report
64
Editor's Note
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