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CMU Wearable Computers for Real-Time Speech Translation

Published: 18 October 1999 Publication History

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Carnegie Mellon's Wearable Computers Laboratory has built four generations of real - time speech translation wearable computers, culminating in the Speech Translator Smart Module. Smart Modules are a family of interoperable modules supporting real-time speech recognition, language translation, and speech synthesis. In this paper, we examine the effect of various design factors on performance with emphasis on modularity and scalability. A system-level approach to power / performance optimization is described that improved the metric of (performance / (weight * volume * power)) by over a factor of 300 through the four generations.

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    ISWC '99: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
    October 1999
    ISBN:0769504280

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