Thank you, Jimmy and Keld for your inputs.
I give the Speech Translation Wiki a thorough read and also looked up
GenieTalk. Here's what I want to add:
- The Web Speech API* open-sourced by Google is already pretty awesome
and accurate to the most part, with support for many popular languages,
both for Speech Recognition**** as well as Speech Synthesis*****. The
Speech Recognition API gives us output in text, which Apertium can work
upon and the the translated text could be spoken out by Speech Synthesis or
displayed on-screen. With both Google and Apertium already supporting so
many language pairs, this doesn't constrain our project to just
Korean-Enlgish, unlike GenieTalk.
- The idea is to exploit the in-browser capability and do away with the
need to download or install anything on your computer/tablet/phone. It
should be as simple as just picking up a Nexus 7 or an iPad, going to a url
on Chrome and begin talking.
Please let me know if I'm overlooking a caveat or going beyond scope here
for I would love to work on something like this, of course at whatever
scale is feasible in the time-period of the SoC.
Regards,
Aayush Kothari
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* https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html
** https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html
***
http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---Introduction-to-the-Speech-Synthesis-API
On 13 February 2014 14:40, <[email protected]> wrote:
> ¡Hola!
>
> I am at a ISO JTC1/SC35 meeting this week at UAB, Barcelona.
> We are discussing standards for speech-to-speech translation.
> And they have heard of Apertium. It is some Koreans that is
> proposing the project, and they already have a running and working
> project, GenieTalk, which can translate between English, Korean, Spanish
> Japanese, with Chinese, French and Russian coming in a couple of years.
>
> AFAIK everything except from the text-to-text translation is open source.
> That would include speech recognition and generation.
>
> It would also mean that Apertium could fit at an open source reference
> translation engine in their design.
>
> best regards
> keld
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:22:19PM +0000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
> > On 12 February 2014 17:59, Aayush Kothari <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Forgive if this project already exists somewhere, but this is
> something I
> > > truly wanted implemented after I learned what WebRTC is about and
> capable
> > > of.
> > > So the idea is this - WebRTC already gives you the ability to have
> > > in-browser audio/video chats and there are many implementations of the
> same
> > > already out there. But what all of them do not do is allow
> communication
> > > between 2 persons who may differ in languages they can speak -
> something
> > > that lead to the demand for human and eventually, computer-aided
> translators
> > > such as Google Translate (sadly not free anymore) and Apertium. With my
> > > idea, and constantly evolving web-browsers, it'd be a wonderful gift
> for a
> > > huge chunk of the internet users.
> > >
> >
> > Speech-to-speech translation is the dream of anyone who grew up
> > watching Star Trek :)
> >
> > > A basic idea of what it'd do:
> > >
> > > It would allow a Japanese guy and a French guy to speak to the browser
> in
> > > their native language and display what the Japanese person actually
> meant in
> > > French on the French guy's screen.
> > >
> > > It also gives you the chance to speak in Japanese but heard in French
> on the
> > > other side by having the bot (such as a SpeechSynthesisUtterance
> instance)
> > > speak out a translated version of what you said.
> >
> > As well as speech synthesis, you would need speech recognition.
> >
> > I'd suggest that you start with
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_translation and follow the links
> > in the article, to familiarise yourself with what would be involved.
> >
> >
> > --
> > <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around?
> > <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you
> >
> >
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