Quaero Speech-to-Text and Text Translation Evaluation Systems

Our laboratory has used the HP XC4000, the high performance computer of the federal state Baden-Wnrttemberg, in order to participate in the second Quaero evaluation for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT). State-of-the-art automatic speech recognition and machine translation systems train use stochastic models which are trained on large amounts of training data using techniques from the field of machine learning. Using these techniques the systems search for the most likely speech recognition hypothesis, translation hypothesis respectively.

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