input: Text: Grad B: Grad D: How many batteries do you go through? Grad B: Thank you. Professor C: Alright. PhD A: Sure. Professor C: Good. Yeah. OK so, let's get started. Nancy said she's coming and that means she will be. Um. My suggestion is that Robert and Johno sort of give us a report on last week's adventures uh to start. So everybody knows there were these guys f uh from Heidelber - uh, uh, actually from uh DFKI uh, part of the German SmartKom project, who were here for the week and, I think got a lot done. Grad E: Yeah, I think so too. Um. The <unk>disfmarker<unk> we got to the point where we can now speak into the SmartKom system, and it 'll go all the way through and then say something like " Roman numeral one, am Smarticus. " It actually says, " Roemisch einz, am Smarticus, " Grad B: OK. Grad E: which means it's just using a German sythesis module for English sentences. Grad B: OK. Grad E: So uh, Professor C: It doesn't know " I ". Grad B: OK. Grad E: Um, the uh Grad B: Oh, Am Spartacus. " Grad D: " I am Sm - I am Smarticus " is what it's saying. PhD A: Right. Grad B: Verstehe. OK. Grad D: I gue Grad E: The uh sythesis is just a question of um, hopefully it's just a question of exchanging a couple of files, once we have them. And, um, it's not going to be a problem because we decided to stick to the so - called concept to speech approach. So I'm <unk>disfmarker<unk> I'm
  Question: What were the problems encountered with SmartKom system?
  Answer:
output: The translation of SmartKom to english is in its final stages. The synthesis module will be the last one to do, after the english syntax trees are completed. The system is still buggy and unstable, but it will soon be ready for a demonstration.