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- From: Dave.Leibold@f730.n250.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Dave Leibold)
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- Subject: Phone Translation Experiment
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 07:09:48 GMT
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- Reuters reports of a Japanese project to provide live phone
- translation. An experiment was scheduled for this week to test
- translation among Japansese, English and German speakers located in
- Japan, U.S.A. and Germany respectively. Advanced Telecommunications
- Research Institute (ATR) in Tokyo says 90% of regular vocabulary can
- be processed, though it may take another decade for such a system to
- be placed into public service. ATR, Carnegie Mellon University
- (Pittsburgh) and University of Karlsruhe (Munich) are the partners in
- this experiment.
-
- The idea is to take voice from one party of a conversation, apply
- speech recognition to convert that voice to text, then translate the
- text, then send the voice synthesised translation in the language of
- the other party. The process of translating from voice to voice takes
- about 20 seconds with this experimental technology.
-
- On other translation topics:
-
- * AT&T's Language Line exists today to provide translation staff for
- phone calls. Some organizations such as the Toronto Transit Commission
- will connect to AT&T Language Line when handling public inquiries.
-
- * The Nation's Capital Freenet project (Ottawa, Canada - akin to the
- Cleveland FreeNet) has an expressed interest to provide automated
- e-mail and newsgroup translation for the English and French
- communities.
-
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