On 10/20/06, Richard Loosemore wrote:
I would *love* to see those IBM folks put a couple of jabbering four-year-old children in front of that translation system, to see how it likes their 'low-intelligence' language. :-) Does anyone have any contacts on the team, so we could ask?
I sent an email to Liang Gu on the IBM MASTOR project team (not really expecting a reply) :) and have just received this response. Sounds hopeful. BillK ----------------- Bill, Thanks for your interests on MASTOR. And your suggestion of MASTOR for Children is really great! It is definitely much more meaningful if MASTOR can not only help adults but also children communicate with each other around the world using different languages! Although recognizing Children's voice has been proved a very challenging task, the translation and text-to-speech techniques thus involved should be very similar to what we have now. We will seriously investigate the possibility of this approach and will send you a test link if we later developed a pilot system on the web. Regards and thanks again for your enthusiasm about MASTOR, Liang ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
