We present recent advances from our efforts in increasing coverage, robustness, generality and speed of JANUS, CMU's speech-tospeech translation system. JANUS is a speaker-independent system translating spoken utterances in English and also in German into one of German, English or Japanese. The system has been designed around the task of conference registration (CR). It has initially been built based on a speech database of i 2 read dialogs, encompassing a vocabulary of around 500 words. We have since been expanding the system along several dimensions to improve speed, robustness and coverage and to move toward spontaneous input.
sent recent advances from our eortsinincreasing c o vrobustness, generali ty and s p eed of JANUS, CMU's to-s p eech translation s y stem. J A N U S i s a s p eakert s y stemwhi c h translates spoken utterances i n al so i n Germ an i n toone o f G erm an, E n g l i s h o r systemhas b een desi gned around t h e t a sk stration (C R). It has i n i t i a l l yb een bui l t d a tabase of 1 2 r e a d d i a l o g s, encom passaround 500 words. W e h a v e s i n ce been ong s e v eral d i m ensions t o i m p rove age a n d t o m o v e t o w a rdspon ta-CTI ON
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