Institute for Infocomm Research Successfully Completes Its First Asian Network-Based Speech-to-Speech Translation System
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Founding countries included Japan (NICT/ATR), Korea (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute - ETRI), Thailand (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center - NECTEC), Indonesia (Badan Pengkajian Dan Penerapan Teknologi or The Agency For the Assessment and Application Technology - BPPT), China (National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition of the Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences - NLPR-CASIA), and India (Centre for Development of Advance Computing – C-DAC).Professor Lye Kin Mun, Deputy Executive Director (Research) said, “I2R has come a long way in developing speech recognition and machine translation technologies.We hope to work with more countries on a global scale with this imminent success.” The I2R team is led by Dr. Li Haizhou, Department Head of Human Language Technology, with members, Dr. Ma Bin, Ms. Aw Ai Ti, Dr. Vladimir Pervouchine, Ms. Tong Rong, Mr. Bai Shuanhu, and Ms. Sharifah Mahani Aljunied.Originally started by six members, the Asian Speech Translation Advanced Research Consortium was established in June 2006 by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Laboratories (ATR).Founding countries included Japan (NICT/ATR), Korea (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute - ETRI), Thailand (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center - NECTEC), Indonesia (Badan Pengkajian Dan Penerapan Teknologi or The Agency For the Assessment and Application Technology - BPPT), China (National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition of the Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences - NLPR-CASIA), and India (Centre for Development of Advance Computing – C-DAC).We hope to work with more countries on a global scale with this imminent success.”The I2R team is led by Dr. Li Haizhou, Department Head of Human Language Technology, with members, Dr. Ma Bin, Ms. Aw Ai Ti, Dr. Vladimir Pervouchine, Ms. Tong Rong, Mr. Bai Shuanhu, and Ms. Sharifah Mahani Aljunied.###[1] Collection of recorded remarks used for linguistic analysis Contact Information Institute for Infocomm Research Andrew Yap +6564191143 http://www.a-star.edu.sg/a_star/189-Press-Release?iid=681 Click here to view the list of recent Press Releases from Institute for Infocomm Research Promote Your Business Press Release Pricing Email this page to a friend