Lexica and Corpora

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Lexica and Corpora for Speech-to-Speech
Translation Components IST-2001-32216 www
.lc-star.com

Consortium Members
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• Project implementation
• Track I (duration 2 years) has as objectives
• - specification and creation of large
  word lists
• and lexica suited for flexible
  vocabulary speech
• recognition and high quality speech
  synthesis
• covering a wide range of domains
• Track II (duration 3 years) has as objectives
• - investigation of speech centered
  translation
• technologies focusing on requirements
• concerning language resources (LR)
• - specification and creation of the LR
  needed for
• speech centered translation
• - building a demonstrator for
  speech-to-speech
• translation
• - demonstration of language transfer
• Outcome
• lexica for recognition and synthesis for 13
  languages

• Objectives
• improve human-to-human and man-machine
• communication in multilingual environments
• specify and create lexica and corpora needed for
  
• transferring Speech-to-Speech Translation
• (SST) components and speech centered
  translation
• into selected languages

Lexica for 13 languages Turkish, Russian,
Italian, Greek, Spanish, Catalan, German,
Classical Arabic, US-English, Hebrew, Finnish,
Mandarin, Slovenian
Corpora for 3 languages Catalan, US-English,
Spanish
The LC-STAR project is open for new participants.
In case of interest, please contact Mrs. Ute
Ziegenhain (e-mail ute.ziegenhain_at_mchp.siemens.d
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