ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1995
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1995

French speech recognition in an automatic dictation system for translators: the transtalk project

Julie Brousseau, Caroline Drouin, George Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Roland Kuhn, Yves Normandin, Pierre Plamondon

This paper describes a system designed for use by professional translators that enables them to dictate their translation. Because the speech recognizer has access to the source text as well as the spoken translation, a statistical translation model can guide recognition. This can be done in many different ways - which is best? We discuss the experiments that led to integration of the translation model in a way that improves both speed and performance.