Speech-to-speech translation humanoid robot in doctor's office

Sangmi Shin, Eric T. Matson, Jinok Park, Bowon Yang, Juhee Lee, Jin Woo Jung

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Abstract

This paper illustrates the implementation of a speech-to-speech translation humanoid robot in the domain of medical care. At this stage, the proposed system is a one-way translation that is designed to help English speaking patients describe their symptoms to Korean doctors or nurses. A humanoid robot is useful because it can be extended to reach out to people in need first and may substitute the role of human workers, unlike laptops or tablets. The system consists of three main parts - speech recognition, English-Korean translation, and Korean speech generation. It utilizes CMU Sphinx-4 as a speech recognition tool. English-Korean translation in this system is based on the rule-based translation. The success rate of the translation shows reliable results from an experiment with a closed scenario.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICARA 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications
EditorsDonald Bailey, G. Sen Gupta, Serge Demidenko
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages484-489
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479964666
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Apr 2015
Event6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications, ICARA 2015 - Queenstown, New Zealand
Duration: 17 Feb 201519 Feb 2015

Publication series

NameICARA 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications, ICARA 2015
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityQueenstown
Period17/02/1519/02/15

Keywords

  • Humanoid Robot
  • Machine Translation
  • Medical Service Robot
  • Speech-to-Speech Translation

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