QAT: The QCRI Advanced Transcription and Translation System
QCRI Advanced Transcription System, a state-of-the-art speech recognition system for Modern Standard Arabic, is now live on Aljazeera.net! Select daily or archived videos and turn on the closed caption feature.
QAT is a multimedia content translation web service developed by QCRI to help content provider to reach audiences and viewers speaking different languages. It is built with establishing open source technologies such as KALDI, Moses and MaryTTS, to provide a complete translation experience for web users. It translates text content in its original format, and produce translated videos with speech-to-speech translation. The result is a complete native language experience for end users on foreign language websites. The system currently supports translation from Arabic to English. Index Terms: speech recognition, speech-to-speech translation, machine translation, text-to-speech synthesis
