The workshop intends to bring together the SST Evaluation players to discuss the evaluation from all perspectives and to compare TC-STAR innovative approaches to other past or on-going evaluation projects and worldwide initiatives.
All participants to the evaluation campaign will be given the opportunity to present and discuss their results at the TC-STAR evaluation workshop. The results of the TC-STAR 2006 evaluation campaign will be presented and discussed in the TC-STAR 2006 workshop.
TC-STAR is a European integrated project focusing on Speech-to-Speech Translation (SST). To encourage significant advances in all SST technologies, annual competitive evaluations are organized. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Spoken Language Translation (SLT) and Text-To-Speech TTS) are evaluated independently and within an end-to-end system. The project targets a selection of unconstrained conversational speech domains - speeches and broadcast news - and three languages: European English, European Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese.
The first evaluation took place in March 2005 for ASR and SLT and September 2005 for TTS. TC-STAR welcomes outside participants in its 2nd evaluation of January-February 2006. This participation is free of charge (see call for participants in the appendix). The evaluation campaign will be followed by an international workshop and TC-STAR welcomes all interested participants.