Techniques for Aiding Speech-to-Speech Translation

• US 20100204978A1
• Filed: 04/15/2010
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kuo, Hong-Kwang Jeff, Zhou, Bowen, Gao, Yuqing
• Granted Patent: US 8,768,699 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/45 Example-based machine translation; Alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

Techniques for assisting in translation are provided. A speech recognition hypothesis is obtained, corresponding to a source language utterance. Information retrieval is performed on a supplemental database, based on a situational context, to obtain at least one word string that is related to the source language utterance. The speech recognition hypothesis and the word string are then formatted for display to a user, to facilitate an appropriate selection by the user for translation.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for assisting machine translation, comprising the steps of:

monitoring a dialog of at least one user with a translation apparatus;

analyzing said dialog to develop at least one suggestion for a next word string desired to be translated; and

formatting said next word string for display to said at least one user.

2. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer readable program code for assisting machine translation, said computer program product including:

computer useable program code configured to monitor a dialog of at least one user with a translation apparatus;

computer useable program code configured to analyze said dialog to develop at least one suggestion for a next word string desired to be translated; and

computer useable program code configured to format said next word string for display to said at least one user.