Speech Translation Technology In Chatting And Video Conference Platform
Nansi Jain
Prateek Maurya, Mohammad Umar, Pratik Raj
IPEC, Dept. of CSE(DS)
1. Abstract
Speech translation is an important technology when it comes to chatting and video conferencing platforms. It has proved itself to be a transformative tool to bridge language barriers, making cross cultural, locale and region communication possible. Its ability to perform in real time irrespective of the linguistic state of the input makes it highly useful. This technology requires multiple levels of processing, among which main processing is done by a language model which has multiple stage including Natural Language Processing (NLP), Speech Recognition, Machine Learning Models (MLM). These together makes the translation possible. Aside from this basic network infrastructure is required to support the transmission of chat and video over the internet. All these related technologies are being developed from a long time, over 20 years or more. But it has been just a few years that it has become accurate enough to be useful to a commercial user. The earliest studies started at Advance Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) in Japan. It involved features like voice to text transcription, multi-language translation with support for variety of languages facilitating seamless interaction between individuals from different origins. With the increase in remote work and collaboration in international communities, this technology plays a vital role in simplifying communication and resulting in improved business outcomes and better products. This enhances user experience and removes a lot of hassle. Modern chat applications are easily compatible with this and with the technology like Web3 this translation model can be easily integrated with already existing communication infrastructure. There are yet a lot of challenges in developing something with so much vast and widespread application. Biggest challenge for this can be maintaining the contextual understanding, managing accents and ensure secure transmission to avoid any breach. We have been continuously improving on this with rapidly growing technology but as there is always room for more, this journey is going to be long. But for sure, future applications of this approach is going to have big impact on how people interact with each other without needing to think about language barriers.
