@inproceedings{baumann-etal-2014-towards,
    title = "Towards simultaneous interpreting: the timing of incremental machine translation and speech synthesis",
    author = "Baumann, Timo  and
      Bangalore, Srinivas  and
      Hirschberg, Julia",
    editor = {Federico, Marcello  and
      St{\"u}ker, Sebastian  and
      Yvon, Fran{\c{c}}ois},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers",
    month = dec # " 4-5",
    year = "2014",
    address = "Lake Tahoe, California",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2014.iwslt-papers.2",
    pages = "163--168",
    abstract = "In simultaneous interpreting, human experts incrementally construct and extend partial hypotheses about the source speaker{'}s message, and start to verbalize a corresponding message in the target language, based on a partial translation {--} which may have to be corrected occasionally. They commence the target utterance in the hope that they will be able to finish understanding the source speaker{'}s message and determine its translation in time for the unfolding delivery. Of course, both incremental understanding and translation by humans can be garden-pathed, although experts are able to optimize their delivery so as to balance the goals of minimal latency, translation quality and high speech fluency with few corrections. We investigate the temporal properties of both translation input and output to evaluate the tradeoff between low latency and translation quality. In addition, we estimate the improvements that can be gained with a tempo-elastic speech synthesizer.",
}