Research on Speech-to-Speech Translation is Booming
In just three months, universities and tech companies released over two dozen papers on speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), highlighting continuing trends, new directions in research.
In just three months, universities and tech companies released over two dozen papers on speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), highlighting continuing trends, new directions in research.
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Unbabel hires Amazon’s former Machine Translation Group Manager, Alon Lavie, as VP of Language Technologies; Lavie’s former business partner leaves Amazon for Uber.
US researchers outline how technology could be used to support the work of simultaneous interpreters. They propose analyzing the linguist’s performance on the fly via real-time quality feedback loop and offer help only when the interpreter is struggling.
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