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  • 1 - Speech and Translation Technologies

  • Meng Ji, University of Sydney, Pierrette Bouillon, Université de Genève, Mark Seligman, Spoken Translation Technology
  • Book:
    Translation Technology in Accessible Health Communication
    Published online:
    31 August 2023
    Print publication:
    21 September 2023, pp 10-46
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  • Summary

    This chapter explains significant speech and translation technologies for healthcare professionals. We first examine the progress of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS). Turning to machine translation (MT), we briefly cover fixed-phrase-based translation systems (“phraselators”), with consideration of their advantages and disadvantages. The major types of full (wide-ranging, relatively unrestricted) MT – symbolic, statistical, and neural – are then explained in some detail. As an optional bonus, we provide an extended explanation of transformer-based neural translation. We postpone for a separate chapter discussion of practical applications in healthcare contexts of speech and translation technologies.