Complete title: Research for developing an automatic translation system for Vietnamese text to Muong speech, with further application to other unwritten languages in Vietnam
Funded by: Ministry of Science and Technology – Vietnam
Partners: MICA (leader), Institut of Linguistic of Vietnam, LACITO (France)
Duration: 36 months (2017-2020)
Project description:
• Objective :
Research on automatic translation from Vietnamese text to speech of unwritten ethnic minority languages in Vietnam.
Construct of parallel corpus between Vietnamese text and Muong’s speech.
Develop software applying automatic translation system from Vietnamese text to Muong’s speech
• Scientific contributions/ Main achievements
A general methodology to translate automatically from Vietnamese text to speech of unwritten ethnic minority languages in Vietnam.
A parallel corpus between Vietnamese text and Muong’s speech
A set of tools for recording and processing speech data of unwritten ethnic minority languages
An automatic translation system from Vietnamese text to Muong’s speech
A dictionary application on smartphone to lookup common words and sentence from Vietnamese text to Muong’s speech
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