Recent advances in JANUS: a speech translation system
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esent recent advances from our e orts in i ncreasi ng covrobustness, generali ty and speed of JANUS, CMU's to-speech transl ati on system. JANUS i s a speakernt systemwhi ch transl ates spoken utterances i n d al so i n German i nto one of German, Engl i sh or e systemhas been desi gned around the task i strati on (CR). It has i ni ti al l y been bui l t h database of 12 read di al ogs, encompassaround 500 words. We have si nce been l ong several dimensi ons to improve rage and to move toward sponta-
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