The ALST Project: Technologies for Audiovisual Translation
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This paper presents an overview of the ALST project, in which speech technologies (speech recognition and speech synthesis) and machine translation were implemented in the voice-over of non-fictional genres and in the audio description of films. The paper presents the project rationale, a brief description of the experiments carried out within the project, as well as its main findings.
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