David Carter, Ralph Becket, Manny Rayner, ; Robert Eklund, Catriona MacDermid, Mats Wiren, ; Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen, Christina Philp
Abstract
In this paper we describe how the translation methodology adopted for the Spoken Language Translator (SLT) addresses the characteristics of the speech translation task in a context where it is essential to achieve easy customization to new languages and new domains. We then discuss the issues that arise in any attempt to evaluate a speech translator, and present the results of such an evaluation carried out on SLT for several language pairs.