Patent ID: 8504351

Claim:
A speech translation system comprising: at least one processor programmed to implement: an automatic speech recognition unit configured for accepting sound comprising a real-time open domain spoken presentation by a first speaker in a first language and for continuously creating a plurality of partial hypotheses of the open domain spoken presentation in real time while the first speaker is speaking, wherein the automatic speech recognition unit comprises; a speaker-adapted acoustic model that is adapted prior to the real-time open domain spoken presentation based on at least one prior talk by the first speaker for which acoustic model parameters for speech recognition have been adapted; and a language model; a resegmentation unit in communication with the automatic speech recognition unit, wherein the resegmentation unit is configured to: merge at least two partial hypotheses received from the automatic speech recognition unit; and resegment the merged partial hypotheses into a translatable segment; and a machine translation unit, in communication with the resegmentation unit, that receives the translatable segment from the resegmentation unit, wherein the machine translation unit outputs a translation of the open domain spoken presentation of the first source in a second language based on the translatable segment received from the segmentation unit.