Speech Rate Conversion Technology. By Earl Hunsinger The world is moving at a faster pace.
Transportation is faster, communication is faster, and so on. Some even feel that people are speaking faster. This makes it hard for some of us to keep pace. The Science and Technical Research Laboratories of Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, has developed a device that they feel will help (at least with how fast people seem to be talking). Have you ever listened to a recording played at a fast speed? Their new technology maintains the original timber and pitch of the speech, while playing it back at a faster rate. This system also benefits elderly listeners by slowing down radio broadcasts or the audio in television programs. The world continues to speed up, and we continue to age. Viki. Viki. Bringing down language barriers that stand between great entertainment and its fans, no matter where they are Viki, a play on the words video and wiki, is a global TV site powered by a volunteer community of avid fans.
Launched in December 2010, Viki now has tens of millions of users every month watching and sharing TV shows, movies, music videos and other premium content from around the world, translated into more than 160 languages. With over 2 billion video streams and more than 400 million words translated to date, Viki uniquely brings global prime-time entertainment to new audiences and unlocks new markets and revenue opportunities for content owners; thousands of hours of video from content providers like NBC, BBC, KBS, SBS, TV Tokyo and many others. By the fans, for the fans Viki is the first and fastest platform for real-time subtitling and sharing of video -- from Korean and Turkish dramas to Japanese Anime and music videos by well-known artists. Best of world TV, movies, dramas, music videos and news, with subtitles.
Crowdsourcing Translation: What is the most successful translation crowdsourcing project and why. Crowdsourcing Translation Services. Draw on the crowd for effective translation Acclaro provides comprehensive crowdsourcing services that enable organizations to tap their communities of native speakers for translation solutions. We work closely with clients to create tailored end-to-end localization strategies and workflows that benefit from crowd participation. Defining effective crowdsourcing. Live Chat Software. Real-Time Translation, Multilingual Online Chat, Instant Translation. Customer Service - Multilingual live chat service helps spur hotel bookings. The Four Seasons hotel in Limassol, Cyprus, draws visitors from around the world, which means it has to accommodate guests who speak many different languages.
To help the hotel extend its style of one-to-one service to the booking process the hotel recently added a live chat service that supports chat sessions in multiple languages. The five-star hotel last June added a live chat service called LiveWebAssist from communications provider IceWarp. Hotel executives says the service appealed to them because a built-in automated translation function makes it possible for the hotel’s chat agents to communicate in a consumer’s native language, regardless of whether the agent speaks that language. When a consumer enters a chat session, he types his question in his native language, say Russian, and the web-hosted live chat software translates it for the agent’s native language.
The agent answers in her native language and the software automatically translates that answer into Russian. Job Vacancy: University of Edinburgh. Two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Speech Technology. Two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Speech Technology The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Speech Technology supported by the Natural Speech Technology Programme Grant and by the EU Integrated Project EU-Bridge ( EU-Bridge is a large scale European collaboration which aims to develop automatic transcription and translation technology to permit the development of innovative multimedia captioning and translation services of audiovisual documents between European and non-European languages.
The successful candidate should have or be near completion a PhD in speech processing, computer science, linguistics, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline. FP7 : ICT : Language Technologies : EU-BRIDGE. Back to overview Please note that the project factsheets will no longer be updated.
All information relevant to the project can be found on the CORDIS factsheet. This is updated on a regular basis with public deliverables, etc. EU-BRIDGE - Bridges Across the Language Divide. Bcast_v1.1.pdf (application/pdf Object) Phonetik BAS. LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium. Open Language Archives Community. Moses - Main/HomePage. Moses is a statistical machine translation system that allows you to automatically train translation models for any language pair.
All you need is a collection of translated texts (parallel corpus). Once you have a trained model, an efficient search algorithm quickly finds the highest probability translation among the exponential number of choices. Moses on Twitter News 5 October 2017 Moses v 4.0 has been released! Features Moses offers two types of translation models: phrase-based and tree-basedMoses features factored translation models, which enable the integration linguistic and other information at the word level Moses allows the decoding of confusion networks and word lattices, enabling easy integration with ambiguous upstream tools, such as automatic speech recognizers or morphological analyzers The Experiment Management System makes using Moses much easier Get started The released software includes a command line executable which can used for decoding. Acknowledgement.