Presentation of the TAUS Speech-to-Speech Translation Report,
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Hosted by Mark Seligman (Spoken Translation) with panelists: Dr. Alex Waibel (KIT), Chris Wendt (Microsoft). A conversation between Mark Seligman, Dr. Alex Waibel and Chris Wendt about the current Speech-to-Speech Translation Technology Landscape and future developments.
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Presentation of the TAUS Speech-to-Speech Translation Report,
- 1. TAUS Speech-to-Speech Technology Report TAUS Annual Meeting 2016 Mark Seligman Spoken Translation, Inc. mark.seligman@spokentranslation.com Andrew Joscelyne TAUS ajoscelyne@gmail.com
- 2. Past
- 3. In the beginning … • NEC demo, ITU Telecom World (1983 ) • … • Google Translate Conversation Mode (2011)
- 4. Present
- 5. Current Notables Alex Waibel’s Simultaneous Translation Microsoft/Skype Translator
- 6. Interviewees Interviewee Date (in 2016) Alibaba (Eric Liu) 1 July Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chengqing Zong) 4 August CMU/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Alex Waibel) 12 August EML (Siegfried 'Jimmy' Kunzmann) 20 July IBM/Microsoft ASG (Yuqing Gao) 1 August Lexifone (Ike Sagie) 14 July Logbar (Takuro Yoshida) 18 August Microsoft/Skype (Chris Wendt) 5 July NICT (Eiichiro Sumita) 28 July Speechlogger (Ronen Rabinovici) 22 July SpeechTrans (John Frei and Yan Auerbach) 12 July Spoken Translation, Inc. (Mark Seligman) 8 August Translate Your World (Sue Reager) 12 July
- 7. Interview Questions • Origins and motivation – Why did you undertake your S2ST project and lead it to an operational conclusion? – What are the immediate goals and achievements? – What longer term goals do you have? • Technology – Which MT system do you use? – Which ASR tech do you use? – Which TTS tech do you use? – Which emerging technologies do you see as becoming relevant? • Use case and market – What is your primary use case? Are any other use cases emerging? – What is your target market? Which cohort of users? – What is your business model for this product/service? – How do you price the product/service? • Language pairs – Which language pairs are most used/required? – Which new ones do you plan to develop and why? • SWOT analysis – Strengths (best use cases for S2ST, your organization’s strong points) – Weaknesses (worst use cases for S2ST, your organization’s weak points) – Opportunities (confluence of technologies, needs, and lifestyles) – Threats (e.g., a disruptive technology shift)
- 8. Survey: e.g. How Use S2S?
- 9. Future
- 10. The Way Forward • Improve statistical MT – User feedback + machine learning – More, better data • Knowledge source integration – Discourse – Domain – Prosody … • The Return of Semantics – Interlingua/ontologies – Perceptually grounded semantics • New tech – Deep neural networks – Other AI
- 11. Contact Mark Seligman • mark.seligman@spokentranslation.com Andrew Joscelyne • ajoscelyne@gmail.com Sendoff