SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION IN THE FIELD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for updating the vocabulary of a speech translation system for translating a first language into a second language including written and spoken words.SOLUTION: A method includes steps of adding a new word in the first language to a first recognition lexicon of the first language and associating a description containing pronunciation and word class information with the new word. The new word and description are then updated in a first machine translation module associated with the first language. The first machine translation module contains a first tagging module, a first translation model, and a first language module, and is configured to translate the new word to a corresponding translated word in the second language.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1