15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
Although first demonstrators for speech to speech translation have
been presented, they are still 'show cases' with lacking robustness
for everyday usage. This lacking robustness is caused by the insufficient
performance of the building blocks of speech to speech translation
systems i.e. of speech recognition, spoken language translation and
speech synthesis.
In the context of a phonetic conference the question
arises if phonetic knowledge can contribute to improve substantially
speech to speech translation technology. This paper addresses this
problem and gives an introduction to the ICPhS symposium 'the role
of phonetics in speech to speech translation'. Based on a review on
the current use of phonetic knowledge in speech to speech translation
technology and based on a review of unsolved problems in speech recognition,
synthesis and spoken language translation this paper emphasize the
need of suited language resources and the need for a research in the
articulatory acoustic space.
Bibliographic reference. Höge, Harald (2003): "The role of phonetics in speech to speech translation", In ICPhS-15, 43-46.