- Roger Hsiao, Ashish Venugopal, Thilo Köhler, Y. Zhang, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Andreas Zollmann, S. Vogel, A. Black, Tanja Schultz, A. Waibel. 2006. Optimizing components for handheld two-way speech translation for an English-iraqi Arabic system. Abstract: This paper described our handheld two-way speech translation system for English and Iraqi. The focus is on developing a field usable handheld device for speech-to-speech translation. The computation and memory limitations on the handheld impose critical constraints on the ASR, SMT, and TTS components. In this paper we discuss our approaches to optimize these components for the handheld device and present performance numbers from the evaluations that were an integral part of the project. Since one major aspect of the TransTac program is to build fieldable systems, we spent significant effort on developing an intuitive interface that minimizesthetrainingtimeforusersbutalsoprovidesusefulinfor
