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by Tony GUEZ

INSTANT LANGUAGE VOICE TRANSLATION


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1. Problem statement: People speaking different languages present barriers to global communications and cooperation

2. Benefits of Instant Language Voice Translation Solution

3. Use cases

4. Solution architecture

AGENDA


• Today almost all translation done by human effort (>99%)

• 400,000 translators worldwide, 150,000 in Europe

• $5.7 Billion dollar industry in 2006

• European Union: 1.3 Billion spent on translation

- 506 language directions to translate

- Current effort insufficient to keep up with needs of 23 member states

• Worldwide 6,000 languages

- 36,000,000 language directions!!!

• Actual translation work is currently only about 10% of translatable text

• Translation needs are growing 25% -35% per year

• …and that’s just for text…

THE MAGNITUDEOF THE PROBLEM


Conferences• Estimated 300,000 conference per year in Europe

- 150 professional simultaneous translators

- 1% or less are translated

• Internet

- On YouTube, every minute 13 hours of new videos

• Television

- Satellite, cable: Virtually unlimited channels

• Lectures

- Government, Universities, corporations

• Meetings

• Telephone conversations

• Travel dialogs/encounters

TRANSLATIONOF SPEECH


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MARKET SEGMENT FOR ILVT SERVICES

Example of “Telephony interpretation market” (TIS*) using external interpreter

100 million € in 2012+ 14,6 % YoY

Most requested languages:

English and SpanishCost $3-4mn

FOR ANY SEGMENTS!!

(TIS*) is a very small part of our Total Addressable Market

G2C

B2C C2CFinancial services

Consumer products

Inter-personal

Insurance

Travel

Telecom

Government

Utilities

Healthcare


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PARTNERENTERPRISEGROUP

BELL LABS ILVT TEAM

MULTIPLE EXPERTS TOGETHER FOR A UNIQUE ALCATEL-LUCENT INNOVATIVE PROJECT


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WE ENABLE PEOPLE SPEAK TO EACH OTHER IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES OVER THE PHONE WITH

INSTANT VOICE TRANSLATION AND TEXT TRANSCRIPTS

ILVT SOLUTION, TO EXCHANGE WITH THE WORLD IN YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE…

LANGUAGE TRANSLATION

NETWORK

BONJOUR CIAO !


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…AND TEXT TRANSLATIONON THE SCREEN IN REAL TIME!!


• ILVT supports the following activities:

- Globalization of the trade activities

- Expansion of tourism

- Globally mobile workforce of international workers

- Public service support for non-native speakers

- International and national organizations (Justice, Security, EC, UN, NATO…)

ILVT BENEFITS


• Rapid increase of global communications access

• Including access to fixed and mobile Internet

• Large broadband available in fixed and mobile networks

- (LTE, optics, IMS, 3G+)

• Partially driven by social and professional networks expansion

• Rapid growing percentage of illiterate people in emerging countries using mobile devices

MARKET TRENDS DRIVING THE NEED FOR THIS SOLUTION


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BUT THERE IS A GAP BETWEEN THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF ANY HUMAN EXCHANGES…AND LEARNING MORE LANGUAGES

CAN YOUTALK TO ME?

VOUS POUVEZ ME PARLER!!? ? !


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INSTANT LANGUAGE VOICE TRANSLATIONUSE CASES


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ILVT USE CASES, FROM ONE TERMINAL TO MANY

#1HELLO!...

…BONJOUR!

#2CIAO BONJOUR

#3

BONJOUR

HELLO

OLA


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USE CASEINFORMATION

CONTACT AND INFORMATION DESK POINT

• Reduction costs

− cost of multilingual staff

− difficult to recruit

− expensive profiles

• Flexibility need

− resolve peak calls

− support 24x7

BONJOUR,JE CHERCHE…

BUENOS DIAS


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USE CASETRANSLATION OF SPEECH(LANGUAGES AND TEXT)

MR. PRESIDENT SEÑOR PRÉSIDENTE


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ILVTserver

USE CASEBOOKING

ILVTserver

HELLO, I DON’T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE AND I’M USING THE ILVT SERVICE TO BOOK…


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USE CASENEW BUSINESSAND MORE TRADE

•No intermediates

•More confidence

• Faster

•More business initiative

•More direct prospection

•At any time, everywhere

E QUALE SAREBBÉ

IL PRECIO ?

IT IS BETTER IF YOU TAKE ALL OF THEM


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USE CASECLAIMS POLICEOFFICE, EMERGENCY,…

I LOST MY PASSPORT

SOMEONE STOLE MY CREDIT CARD!!!

CALMEZ-VOUS, ON VA VOUS AIDER…


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• Using ILVT server

- Best reception

- Gain time

- Rapid support

- Better diagnostic

- Increase confidence

USE CASEHEALTH CARE

मै ंमै ंमै ंमै ं पे टपे टपे टपे ट मे ंमे ंमे ंमे ंदर् ददर् ददर् ददर् द हैहैहैहै

WHAT IS HE SAYING!!!?


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• Regional emergencies

• Natural disasters

• Civil war

• Outbreaks of disease

• Peacekeeping operations

• Health care for needy and poor

USE CASEHUMANITARIAN NEEDS


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INSTANT LANGUAGE VOICE TRANSLATION ARCHITECTURE


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ILVTSERVER

DEVELOPMENT PATH TO A CARRIER GRADE PRODUCT

• Sentence recognition

• Disambiguation

• Noise disturbance

• Ergonomics

• Sound quality

PHASE 1 FOR CORPORATE

• Consecutive translation

• Focus on domains

• Dedicated corpus

• Indoor web access

•Written and audio output

• Limited interactivity

•Wideband and audio quality

PHASE 2 FOR MASS MARKET

• Simultaneous translation

• System learning

• Broader domains

• Complex corpus

• Noise filtering algorithms

•Written and audio output

• Friendly web interface

•Wideband and audio quality


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DISAMBIGUATION ENGINE (CONTEXT MGMT)

VOICE SYNTHESIS

WEB DISPLAY

• Dictionaries

• Voices DB

• User Profiles

SPEAKER(VOICE)(VOICEAND TEXT)

CORRESPONDENT #1(VOICE AND TEXT)

LEARNING

OFFLINE DISAMBIGUATION HELPER DATABASES

ILVT SERVER GLOBALARCHITECTURE

VOICE SYNTHESIS

WEB DISPLAY CORRESPONDENT #2(VOICE AND TEXT)


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ILVT/LINUX SERVER

16 KHZ PCM AUDIOENGLISH

16 KHZ PCM AUDIOSPANISH

RECOGNITION ANDTRANSLATION API

ILVT

TRIALARCHITECTURE

RECOGNITION ANDTRANSLATION SERVER

HELLO HOLA


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