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.

The workshop intends to bring together researchers working on all aspects of speech-to-speech translation and to compare TC-Star innovative approaches to other on-going research projects. The workshop is associated with an open evaluation campaign, whose results will be presented in addition to regular papers.

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.

• For more information on the organisation of this workshop, please send an e-mail to Hélène Mazo.
• For more information on the Evaluation campaign, please send an e-mail to Djamel Mostefa .

The call for participation in the evaluation campaign is available here