ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004

Multilingual corpora for speech-to-speech translation research

Genichiro Kikui, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Seiichi Yamamoto

Multilingual spoken language corpora are indispensable for developing new speech-to-speech machine translation (S2SMT) technologies. This paper first discusses characteristics that corpora for S2SMT should have, then surveys existing corpora. Finally, it compares these corpora focusing on relations between collected data and collection scheme including instructions given to speakers.