公开(公告)号：US20080133245A1

公开(公告)日：2008-06-05

申请号：US11633859

申请日：2006-12-04

申请人： Guillaume Proulx ,  Youssef Billawala ,  Elaine Drom ,  Farzad Ehsani ,  Yookyung Kim ,  Demitrios Master

发明人： Guillaume Proulx ,  Youssef Billawala ,  Elaine Drom ,  Farzad Ehsani ,  Yookyung Kim ,  Demitrios Master

IPC分类号： G10L21/00 ,  G06F17/28 ,  G10L11/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/2872 ,  G06F17/2818 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G10L15/26

摘要： The present invention disclose modular speech-to-speech translation systems and methods that provide adaptable platforms to enable verbal communication between speakers of different languages within the context of specific domains. The components of the preferred embodiments of the present invention includes: (1) speech recognition; (2) machine translation; (3) N-best merging module; (4) verification; and (5) text-to-speech. Characteristics of the speech recognition module here are that the modules are structured to provide N-best selections and multi-stream processing, where multiple speech recognition engines may be active at any one time. The N-best lists from the one or more speech recognition engines may be handled either separately or collectively to improve both recognition and translation results. A merge module is responsible for integrating the N-best outputs of the translation engines along with confidence/translation scores to create a ranked list or recognition-translation pairs.

摘要翻译： 本发明公开了提供适应性平台的模块化语音到语音翻译系统和方法，以使得能够在特定域的上下文内的不同语言的说话者之间进行口头通信。 本发明的优选实施例的组件包括：（1）语音识别; （2）机器翻译; （3）最佳合并模块; （4）验证; （5）文字转语音。 这里的语音识别模块的特征在于，模块被构造成提供N个最佳选择和多流处理，其中多个语音识别引擎可以在任何一个时间处于活动状态。 来自一个或多个语音识别引擎的N最佳列表可以单独处理或集体处理以改善识别和翻译结果。 合并模块负责整合翻译引擎的N最佳输出以及置信/翻译分数，以创建排名列表或识别 - 转换对。