Breaking the language barrier: NIST tests language translation devices for US troops
Breaking the language barrier: NIST tests language translation devices for US troopsAt dusk, a car stops at a checkpoint in Afghanistan. It is a tense moment for all. Because an interpreter is not available, U.S. Marines use hand gestures to ask the driver to step out of the car and open the trunk and hood for inspection. There's a lot of room for error.This scene was re-enacted recently during an evaluation at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)?but, this time, the Marine had a new smart phone-based device that translates his English into the driver's native Pashto and the Pashto back into English.For the past four years, scientists at NIST have been conducting detailed performance evaluations of speech translation systems for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Previous systems used microphones and portable computers. In the most recent tests, the NIST team evaluated three two-way, real-time, voice-translation devices designed to improve communications between the U.
Breaking the language barrier: NIST tests language translation devices for US troops
At dusk, a car stops at a checkpoint in Afghanistan. It is a tense moment for all. Because an interpreter is not available, U.S. Marines use hand gestures to ask the driver to step out of the ...
Fri 30 Jul 10 from PhysOrg
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