Patent ID: 8032356

Claim:
A system, comprising: a speech receiving part, receiving a segment of speech signal in a source language to be processed; a computer part, operating to process the segment of speech signal comprising: processing in a first information channel the segment of speech signal in the source language using a statistical machine translation training, comprising: recognizing speech in the processed segment of speech signal in the source language, converting the recognized speech into text in the source language, and converting the text in the source language into a lattice in a target language; processing in a second information channel the segment of speech signal in the source language using an information transfer training, the second information channel independent and separate from the first information channel, the processing in the second information channel comprising: extracting, from the segment of speech signal, meta information associated with the recognized speech, wherein the meta information includes at least one non-textual aspect of the recognized speech, obtaining descriptors in the source language from the meta information that includes at least one non-textual aspect, and transforming the obtained descriptors in the source language into descriptors in the target language; and an output part producing an output in the target language comprising combining the lattice in the target language and the obtained descriptors in the second language using lattice rescoring.