Foreword by Dean of the School of Computer Sciences i Foreword by Local Workshop Chair of SLTU ' 10 iii

In this talk, I will describe the development of a Malay-English bidirectional speech translation system in the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, as part of the Asian Speech Translation Advanced Research Consortium. I will introduce the basic components and the linguistic resources, in particular, large vocabulary continuous speech recognition, speech synthesis, and machine translation concerning Malay language. I will also discuss the network-based system architecture that supports the real-time speech translation service. Biography Dr Haizhou Li is the Principal Scientist of Human Language Technology at the Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore. His research interests include automatic speech recognition and machine translation. Dr Li taught in the University of Hong Kong and South China University of Technology (1988-1994). He was a Visiting Professor at CRIN/INRIA in France (1994-1995). He was a Research Manager in Apple-ISS Research Centre (1996-1998), a Research Director in Lernout & Hauspie Asia Pacific (1999-2001), and a Vice President in InfoTalk Corp. Ltd (2001-2003), responsible for Asian language products. In 2009, he was named one of the two Nokia Professors by Nokia Fundation. Dr Li now serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. He is an elected Board Member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA, 2009-2013), an Executive Board Member of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP, 20062010).