Experimental Facility for Measuring the Impact of Environmental Noise and Speaker Variation on Speech-to-Speech Translation Devices

Abstract

We describe the construction and use of a laboratory facility for testing the performance of speech-to-speech translation devices. Approximately 1500 English phrases from various military domains were recorded as spoken by each of 30 male and 12 female English speakers with variation in speaker accent, for a total of approximately 60,000 phrases available for experimentation. We describe an initial experiment using the facility which shows the impact of environmental noise and speaker variability on phrase recognition accuracy for two commercially available oneway speech-to-speech translation devices configured for English-to-Arabic.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA507073

Entities

People

  • Arvind Jairam
  • Douglas A. Jones
  • John Tardelli
  • Michael Emonts
  • Paul Gatewood
  • Wade Shen

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Environment
  • Errors
  • Foreign Languages
  • Governments
  • Identification
  • Language
  • Low Noise
  • Machine Translation
  • Microphones
  • Military Research
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Noise
  • Recognition
  • United States
  • United States Government

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  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Systems Analysis and Design