This paper reports on activities carried out under the European project PF-STAR and within the CSTAR consortium, which aim at evaluating speech translation technologies. In PFSTAR, speech translation baselines developed by the partners and off-the-shelf commercial systems will be compared systematically on several language pairs and application scenarios. In CSTAR, evaluation campaigns will be ...

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.

This report details the author’s experiences as a Distributed Research Experience for Undergraduates (DREU) summer research intern at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute. Under the guidance of Prof. Carolyn Rosé, the author attempted to implement a phrase-based translation (i.e., statistical machine translation, or SMT) system for translating Xhosa text into English usi...

This paper gives an overview of the evaluation campaign results of the IWSLT041 workshop, which is organized by the C-STAR2 consortium to investigate novel speech translation technologies and their evaluation. The objectives of this workshop is to provide a framework for the applicability validation of existing machine translation evaluation methodologies to evaluate speech translation technolo...

advances in computer sciences and the emergence of innovative technologies have entered numerous new elements of change in translation industry, such as the inseparable usage of software programs in audiovisual translation. initiated by the expanding reality of fandubbing in iran, the present article aimed at illuminating this practice into persian in the iranian context to partly address the l...