TransTac : Spoken Language Communication and Translation System for Tactical Use

Contact:  Alan Black or Alex Waibel tanja(at)cs.cmu.edu

In Transtac, we develop technologies that enable robust, spontaneous, two-way, tactical speech communications between American war fighters and native speakers.  In this context we are investigating issues surrounding the rapid deployment of new languages, especially low-resource languages and colloquial dialects.  Currently in Transtac, we are working on two-way translation and Arabic Iraqi.  Transtac builds on our existing speech translation technology. 

We collaborate with Mobile Technologies, LLC who builds small footprint speech recognition and machine translation systems, as well as with Cepstral, LLC who builds small footprint speech synthesis.  In order to bring the whole system on a ruggedized device, we work with Marine Accoustics and its division VoxTec, which recently launched the P2 handheld PDA, the one-way translation device Phraselator.

 
Press Release about Wearable Devices, Carnegie Mellon's Focus Magazine, June 2003 (pdf)

For further information please see: www.ai.sri.com/project/transtac