This book provides the readers with retrospective and prospective views with detailed explanations of component technologies, speech recognition, language trans

Automatic Speech Translation introduces recent results of Japanese research and development in speech translation and speech recognition. Topics covered include

Speech--to--Speech Translation: a Massively Parallel Memory-Based Approach describes one of the world's first successful speech--to--speech machine translation

In 1992 it seemed very difficult to answer the question whether it would be possible to develop a portable system for the automatic recognition and translation

Human language capabilities are based on mental proceduresthat are closely linked to the time domain. Listening, understanding,and reacting, on the one hand, as