Category: Let's talk
Spoken Translation, Inc. to Unveil World's First System for Interactive
Speech-to-Speech and Text-to-Speech Translation at SpeechTek 2005
Company Will Debut Converser(TM) for Healthcare, Deploying Groundbreaking
New
Technology Enabling Real Time Conversations Between English-Only and
Spanish-Only Speakers
BERKELEY, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/27/2005 -- Spoken Translation, Inc.
(STI)
will be showcasing the world's first system for interactive speech-to-speech
and
text-to-speech translation at SpeechTek 2005, August 1st through August 4th,
at
the Marriott Marquis in New York City (www.SpeechTek.com). STI's first
vertical
application of its ConverserT system, Converser for Healthcare, allows
people
who don't speak the same language to hold wide-ranging health-related
conversations in real time, without a human interpreter.
Until now, there has been no simple, private, reliable, and inexpensive way
to
initiate a cross-lingual conversation 24/7. STI Founder and CEO Dr. Mark
Seligman says, "Converser represents an exciting breakthrough for both the
speech and translation industries: multimodal interpreting systems can
improve
communications not only for healthcare, but in customer service,
business-to-business, education, diplomacy, government activities, personal
relationships, and in many other areas." Robert Aiudi, STI's business
development and sales leader, adds, "While Converser cannot and should not
always replace human interpreters, the system does provide significant value
propositions, including reduced interpreting costs, 24/7 accessibility to
interpreting services, protection of privacy, transcript generation, and
verifiability."
What is an interactive speech-to-speech/multimodal translation system? It's
software (running on a Tablet PC, Laptop, etc.) with which you can speak
into a
microphone in one language and then hear the computer pronounce a translated
version in another language -- a version you're confident is accurate, since
you've been able to monitor and correct its progress at several stages.
Converser also enables communication through multiple modes of data entry:
in
addition to speech recognition, you can also use handwriting recognition
technology, touch-screen keyboards, or standard keyboards. Behind the
scenes,
multiple technologies work together; speech recognition, machine
translation,
text-to-speech, and STI's unique user interfaces are tightly integrated with
proprietary word and phrase databases. The proprietary system automatically
provides specially controlled re-translations, or "back-translations," of
input
sentences, lending confidence that the translation says what you mean. And
if
speech recognition or translation errors are found, they can be easily
corrected
via unique Speech CuesT and Meaning CuesT technology.
hmm, that must be expensive if you are getting it. But well human translation is never and I would not think it would ever be replaced. And well I have had some imterpreters which did not translate well at all..