Toward Asian Speech Translation System: Developing Speech Recognition and Machine Translation for Indonesian Language

In this paper, we present a report on the research and development of speech to speech translation system for Asian languages, primarily on the design and implementation of speech recognition and machine translation systems for Indonesia language. As part of the A-STAR project, each participating country will need to develop each component of the full system for the corresponding language. We will specifically discuss our method on building speech recognition and stochastic language model for statistically translating Indonesian into other Asian languages. The system is equipped with a capability to handle variation of speech input, a more natural mode of communication between the system and the users.