Helping Domain Experts Build Speech Translation Systems
This work addresses the problem of making speech translation system development accessible to non-technical domain experts, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing phrasal translation concepts.
The authors tackled the challenge of enabling domain experts to build speech translation systems by introducing Regulus Lite, a platform that supports rapid development and web deployment of phrasal speech translation systems, with initial experiences reported in medical, sign-language, and questionnaire applications.
We present a new platform, "Regulus Lite", which supports rapid development and web deployment of several types of phrasal speech translation systems using a minimal formalism. A distinguishing feature is that most development work can be performed directly by domain experts. We motivate the need for platforms of this type and discuss three specific cases: medical speech translation, speech-to-sign-language translation and voice questionnaires. We briefly describe initial experiences in developing practical systems.