Recent Advances in JANUS: A Speech Translation System

Abstract

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