Using x-grams for speech-to-speech translation

In this paper, a statistical speech-to-speech translation system, developed at TALP during the last months, is presented. By adapting well-known speech recognition techniques to the specific translation setting, th e system is able to integrate speech sign al into a fin ite state tran sdu cer th at tran slates statistically domain-constrained Span ish sen tences into En glish on es.