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2. INSTANT LANGUAGE VOICE TRANSLATION
by Tony GUEZ
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3. AGENDA
1. Problem statement: People speaking
different languages present barriers to
global communications and cooperation
2. Benefits of Instant Language Voice
Translation Solution
3. Use cases
4. Solution architecture
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4. THE MAGNITUDE
OF THE PROBLEM
• Today almost all translation done by human effort (>99%)
• 400,000 translators worldwide, 150,000 in Europe
• $5.7 Billion dollar industry in 2006
• European Union: 1.3 Billion spent on translation
- 506 language directions to translate
- Current effort insufficient to keep up with needs of 23 member states
• Worldwide 6,000 languages
- 36,000,000 language directions!!!
• Actual translation work is currently only about 10% of translatable text
• Translation needs are growing 25% -35% per year
• …and that’s just for text…
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5. TRANSLATION
OF SPEECH
Conferences
• Estimated 300,000 conference per year in Europe
- 150 professional simultaneous translators
- 1% or less are translated
• Internet
- On YouTube, every minute 13 hours of new videos
• Television
- Satellite, cable: Virtually unlimited channels
• Lectures
- Government, Universities, corporations
• Meetings
• Telephone conversations
• Travel dialogs/encounters
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6. MARKET SEGMENT
FOR ILVT SERVICES
Example of “Telephony
interpretation market” (TIS*)
using external interpreter
G2C
100 million € in 2012 Government
+ 14,6 % YoY
Health
care
Telecom Utilities
Most requested languages: Financial
Insurance
English and Spanish B2C services C2C
Cost $3-4mn Travel Consumer
products
Inter-
personal
FOR ANY SEGMENTS!!
(TIS*) is a very small part of our Total Addressable Market
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7. MULTIPLE EXPERTS TOGETHER
FOR A UNIQUE ALCATEL-LUCENT
INNOVATIVE PROJECT
BELL LABS ILVT TEAM
ENTERPRISE PARTNER
GROUP
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8. ILVT SOLUTION, TO EXCHANGE
WITH THE WORLD IN YOUR
NATIVE LANGUAGE…
BONJOUR CIAO !
LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
NETWORK
WE ENABLE PEOPLE SPEAK TO EACH OTHER IN
DIFFERENT LANGUAGES OVER THE PHONE WITH
INSTANT VOICE TRANSLATION AND TEXT TRANSCRIPTS
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9. …AND TEXT TRANSLATION
ON THE SCREEN IN REAL TIME!!
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10. ILVT BENEFITS
• ILVT supports the following activities:
- Globalization of the trade activities
- Expansion of tourism
- Globally mobile workforce of international workers
- Public service support for non-native speakers
- International and national organizations
(Justice, Security, EC, UN, NATO…)
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11. MARKET TRENDS DRIVING
THE NEED FOR THIS SOLUTION
• Rapid increase of global communications access
• Including access to fixed and mobile Internet
• Large broadband available in fixed and mobile networks
- (LTE, optics, IMS, 3G+)
• Partially driven by social and professional networks expansion
• Rapid growing percentage of illiterate people in emerging countries
using mobile devices
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12. BUT THERE IS A GAP BETWEEN THE RAPID
DEVELOPMENT OF ANY HUMAN EXCHANGES…
AND LEARNING MORE LANGUAGES
VOUS POUVEZ
ME PARLER!!? ? ! CAN YOU
TALK TO ME?
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13. INSTANT LANGUAGE VOICE TRANSLATION
USE CASES
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14. ILVT USE CASES, FROM
ONE TERMINAL TO MANY
OLA
#1 #3
HELLO!... HELLO
…BONJOUR!
BONJOUR
CIAO
#2 BONJOUR
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15. USE CASE
INFORMATION
BUENOS DIAS
CONTACT AND
INFORMATION
DESK POINT
BONJOUR,
JE CHERCHE…
• Reduction costs
− cost of multilingual staff
− difficult to recruit
− expensive profiles
• Flexibility need
− resolve peak calls
− support 24x7
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16. USE CASE
TRANSLATION OF SPEECH
(LANGUAGES AND TEXT)
MR. PRESIDENT SEÑOR PRÉSIDENTE
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17. USE CASE
BOOKING
HELLO, I DON’T SPEAK
YOUR LANGUAGE AND
I’M USING THE ILVT
SERVICE TO BOOK…
ILVT ILVT
server server
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18. USE CASE
NEW BUSINESS
AND MORE TRADE
E QUALE
• No intermediates SAREBBÉ
IL PRECIO ?
• More confidence
• Faster
• More business initiative
• More direct prospection
• At any time, everywhere
IT IS BETTER
IF YOU TAKE
ALL OF THEM
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19. USE CASE
CLAIMS POLICE
OFFICE, EMERGENCY,…
CALMEZ-VOUS, ON
VA VOUS AIDER…
I LOST MY SOMEONE STOLE MY
PASSPORT CREDIT CARD!!!
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20. USE CASE
HEALTH CARE
• Using ILVT server
- Best reception
- Gain time
- Rapid support
- Better diagnostic
- Increase confidence
मै ं पे ट मे ं WHAT IS HE
दर् द है SAYING!!!?
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21. USE CASE
HUMANITARIAN NEEDS
• Regional emergencies
• Natural disasters
• Civil war
• Outbreaks of disease
• Peacekeeping operations
• Health care for needy
and poor
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22. INSTANT LANGUAGE VOICE TRANSLATION
ARCHITECTURE
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23. DEVELOPMENT PATH TO
A CARRIER GRADE PRODUCT
ILVT PHASE 1 FOR PHASE 2 FOR
SERVER CORPORATE MASS MARKET
• Sentence recognition • Consecutive translation • Simultaneous translation
• Disambiguation • Focus on domains • System learning
• Noise disturbance • Dedicated corpus • Broader domains
• Ergonomics • Indoor web access • Complex corpus
• Sound quality • Written and • Noise filtering algorithms
audio output
• Written and audio output
• Limited interactivity
• Friendly web interface
• Wideband and
• Wideband and
audio quality
audio quality
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24. ILVT SERVER GLOBAL
ARCHITECTURE
REAL-TIME TRANSLATION MODULE (C++)
WEB DISPLAY
NOISE CANCELLATION
VOICE RECOGNITION
CORRESPONDENT #1
TRANSLATION(S)
SPEAKER (VOICE AND TEXT)
VOICE SYNTHESIS
(VOICE)
(VOICE
AND TEXT) WEB DISPLAY
CORRESPONDENT #2
(VOICE AND TEXT)
VOICE SYNTHESIS
DISAMBIGUATION ENGINE
(CONTEXT MGMT)
OFFLINE DISAMBIGUATION HELPER DATABASES
LEARNING • Dictionaries
• Voices DB
CONTEXT SETTING • User Profiles
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25. TRIAL
ARCHITECTURE
ILVT/LINUX SERVER
HELLO HOLA
ILVT
RECOGNITION AND
TRANSLATION API
16 KHZ PCM AUDIO 16 KHZ PCM AUDIO
ENGLISH SPANISH
RECOGNITION AND
TRANSLATION SERVER
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26. Q&A
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