Multilingual Mobile-Phone Translation Services for World Travelers

This demonstration introduces two new multilingual translation services for mobile phones. The first translation service provides state-of-the-art text-to-text translations of Japanese as well as English conversational spoken language in the travel domain into 17 languages using statistical machine translation technologies trained automatically from a large-scale multilingual corpus. The second demonstration is a speech translation service between Japanese and English for real environments. It is based on distributed speech recognition with noise suppression. Flexible interfaces between internal and external speech translation resources ease the portability of the system to other languages and enable real-time location-free communication world-wide.