- R. Cattoni, G. Lazzari, N. Mana, F. Pianesi, E. Pianta, Florian Metze, J. McDonough, H. Soltau, E. Costantini, D. Gates, A. Lavie, L. Levin, C. Langley, K. Peterson, T. Schultz, A. Waibel, D. Wallace, L. Besacier, H. Blanchon, D. Vaufreydaz. 2002. Not only Translation Quality : Evaluating the NESPOLE ! Speech-to-Speech Translation System along other Viewpoints. Abstract: Performance and usability of real-world speech-to-speech translation systems, like the one developed within the Nespole! project, are affected by several aspects that go beyond the pure translation quality provided by the Human Language Technology components of the system. In this paper we describe these aspects as viewpoints along which we have evaluated the Nespole! system. Four main issues are investigated: (1) assessing system performance under various network traffic conditions; (2) a study on the usage and utility of multi-modality in the context of multi-lingual communication; (3) the features of the single speech recognition engines, and (4) an end-to-end evaluation of the whole system. Not only Translation Quality: Evaluating the NESPOLE! Speech-to-Speech Translation System along other Viewpoints
