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Paper:	SLP-P6.7
Session:	Speech Understanding, Translation, Applications and Systems
Time:	Tuesday, May 16, 16:30 - 18:30
Presentation:	Poster
Topic:	Speech and Spoken Language Processing: Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation
Title:	Open Domain Speech Recognition & Translation: Lectures and Speeches
Authors:	Christian Fuegen, Muntsin Kolss, Dietmar Bernreuther, Matthias Paulik, Sebastian Stueker, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), InterACT, Germany; Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University, Germany
Abstract:	For years speech translation has focused on the recognition and translation of discourses in limited domains, such as hotel reservations or scheduling tasks. Only recently research projects have been started to tackle the problem of open domain speech recognition and translation of complex tasks such as lectures and speeches. In this paper we present the on-going work at our laboratory in open domain speech translation of lectures and parliamentary speeches. Starting from a translation system for European parliamentary plenary sessions and a lecture speech recognition system we show how both components perform in unison on speech translation of lectures.