Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable Based Assessment of Speech-to-Speech Translation Capabilities

Abstract

We present observations from three exercises designed to map the effective listening and speaking skills of an operator of a speech-to-speech translation system (S2S) to the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale. Such a mapping is nontrivial, but will be useful for government and military decision makers in managing expectations of S2S technology. We observed domain-dependent S2S capabilities in the ILR range of Level 0+ to Level 1, and interactive text-based machine translation in the Level 3 range.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA507954

Entities

People

  • Brian Delaney
  • Douglas Jones
  • James Dirgin
  • Jurgen Sottung
  • Martha Herzog
  • Michael Emonts
  • Neil Granoien
  • Sabine Atwell
  • Sargon Jabri
  • Timothy Anderson
  • Timothy Hunter
  • Wade Shen

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Computer Science
  • Education
  • English Language
  • Foreign Languages
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Language
  • Machine Translation
  • New Jersey
  • Pain
  • Performance Tests
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • Translations
  • United States

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation