Translation into the speech of unwritten languages
We are building a system for automatic translation of English into languages that lack a writing system, so that the translation has to generate speech directly, without going through text. The focus is on translation of the Bible.
We have a working prototype, but need a student to package the system in a way that makes it easily usable by anyone. Additional research topics may include: evaluating the system against alternative approaches; developing new evaluation metrics; developing methods for tokenization of speech.
Name of research group, project, or lab
NLP Group
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Why join this research group or lab?
The NLP group more broadly investigates computer processing of less-represented human languages, and the theory of language models.