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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:50:58 +0100
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Subject: [zzzzteana] US Army tests portable translator
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2219079.stm
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US soldiers on peacekeeping duties in the future could find that a portable
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translation device will be an essential part of their equipment.
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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a prototype of a
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speech translator that was road-tested by US Army chaplains in Croatia.
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"This project shows how a relatively simple speech-to-speech translation
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system can be rapidly and successfully constructed using today's tools,"
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said the team from Carnegie Mellon University in a research paper published
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recently.
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The research was commissioned by the US Army, which is increasingly finding
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itself in peace-keeping roles where communication is key.
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Speaking in tongues
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"In the Balkans, the Army is not just supposed to conquer somebody," Robert
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Frederking of Carnegie Mellon University told the BBC programme Go Digital.
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Translators could be essential for US soldiers
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"In a peacekeeping situation, you have two guys trying to beat each other up
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and you are holding them apart.
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"You can't just shot one of them, you have to figure what is going on and
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talk to them," he said.
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The portable translator was developed with a year, using commercially
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available laptops.
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The Army did not want to field-test the device in a battlefield situation.
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So instead the translator was tested by US Army chaplains in Croatia.
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"The chaplains very often end up having to talk to foreign nationals and
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typically don't have any translation support," explained Mr Frederking.
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Slow system
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For the trials, the chaplains used the translator to speak to Croatians who
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knew just a smattering of English.
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The system works by having a speech recogniser that picks up the words in
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Croatian, turns the speech into text. The written words are then translated
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into English and read out by a speech synthesizer.
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"It went reasonably well half the time," said Mr Frederking, though it was
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slow in translating phrases.
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The research team admit that the system is not ready to be deployed in the
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field.
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But they say their trials showed that a portable translator could be made to
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work with further research and development.
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The Audio Voice Translation Guide System project was a joint venture between
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the US Army, the military manufacturer Lockheed Martin and Carnegie Mellon
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University.
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