This paper sketches the author's research in nine areas related to speech translation: interactive disambiguation (two demonstrations of highly-interactive, broad-coverage sp...
SpeechActs is an experimental conversational speech system. Experience with redesigning the system based on user feedback indicates the importance of adhering to conversational co...
Speech translation (ST) is an enabling technology for cross-lingual oral communication. A ST system consists of two major components: an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) and a ma...
We describe recent work on MedSLT, a medium-vocabulary interlingua-based medical speech translation system, focussing on issues that arise when handling languages of which the gra...
This demonstration involves two-way automatic speechto-speech translation on a consumer off-the-shelf PDA. This work was done as part of the DARPA-funded Babylon project, investig...
Alex Waibel, Ahmed Badran, Alan W. Black, Robert E...