Objective: To develop a multilingual virtual conferencing platform.
Partners: AvatarMe, Exodus, Festo Pneumatics, Fraunhofer, Linguatec, Pixelpark
Linguatec Contribution: Automatic translation and speech synthesis components in the domain of business conferencing.
Result: The result of the project was a conference setup called Beyond Babel. It allows participants to talk in their native language, and translates into the native languages of all other participants. This system involves speech recognition, translation into several languages, and output speech synthesis. It was awarded the IST Prize 2004