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Article: Speech for export. (translating languages over the telephone)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- October 16, 1993
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Automating the translation of spoken words
The calller at the other end of the telephone line speaks a language that's completely foreign to you, and you can't tell what she wants. For help, you could look for a co-worker fluent in the language, or you could turn to a commercial telephone service that connects you with an interpreter.
But Alex Waibel, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has a more high-tech solution in mind. He envisions the development of a computer system that recognizes speech in one language, translates the spoken words into another language, and feeds the translated text into a speech synthesizer.
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