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Project description

The future of automatic translation and interpretation

Building on advances in technologies like automatic speech recognition and machine translation, the demand for multilingual communication is growing. The demand for professional translation services is also on the rise. In this context, the EU-funded ELITR project aims to remove the language barrier in communication at large gatherings like conferences, in smaller live discussions like workshops, and in discussions held over long distances like formal or informal online meetings. Specifically, the project will create an automatic subtitling system for live meetings and conference presentations. It will also provide a system of spoken language translation (interpreting). Another service being designed is automatic minuting (creation of structured summaries from automatic transcript of a discussion).

Objective

The goal of the ELITR project is to remove the language barrier in communication within and among European citizens, companies, institutes and organizations at large assemblies like conferences, in smaller live discussions like workshops and in discussions held over long distance like formal or informal online meetings. Within the project, we will create automatic subtitling system of live meetings and conference presentations and provide the system of spoken language translation (interpreting). Furthermore, the project will design and implement automatic minuting, i.e. create structured summaries from automatic transcript of a discussion. We also aim to advance the state of the art to deliver machine translation of high-quality at the level of whole documents and to scale up to multilingual settings with dozens of source and/or target languages. The technologies will be tested by the Supreme Audit Office of the Czech Republic and alfaview®, a German online conferencing system.

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RIA - Research and Innovation action

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) H2020-ICT-2018-20

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Coordinator

UNIVERZITA KARLOVA
Net EU contribution
€ 858 950,00
Address
OVOCNY TRH 560/5
116 36 Praha 1
Czechia
Region
Česko Praha Hlavní město Praha
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 901 700,00

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