Janus II - Advances in Spontaneous Speech Translation

JANUS II is a research system to design and test componentsof speech to speech translation systems as well as aresearch prototype for such a system. We will focus on twoaspects of the system: 1) new features and recognition performanceof the speech recognition component JANUS-SRand 2) the end-to-end performance of JANUS II, includinga comparison of two machine translation strategies used forJANUS-MT (PHOENIX and GLR*).1. INTRODUCTIONCurrently JANUS II components for English, German,...