PDA Applications for the
Olympic Games
Consolidated collaborations
• GET & Tsinghua University:
– (Prof. Ding Xiaoqing)
• LingTour
• Chinese character recognition
• Biometrics
– (Prof. Mao Yuhang)
• Tr@nscultur@
• Speaking French-Chinese dictionary (Le Robert)
• Multilingual dictionary
• IMAG/GETA & LIAMA:
– 10 hour corpus of interpreted, tourism-oriented
French-Chinese dialogues
– Studies on “pivot-based” speech-to-speech machine translation
(e.g. using UNL and the IF of CSTAR-II / NESPOLE!)
Our Current Projects and
Proposals
• LingTour → LingTrans
• Marco Polo
• Mobile Broadcast
LingTour → LingTrans
Linguistic and communication aids to facilitate the
transportation of foreign visitors
Services:
• City maps and databases
• Multilingual communication
support, including Chinese
OCR and translation
• Tourism and commerce (hotels
and restaurants, sightseeing,
conference centers, offices, …)
• Telephone over IP (wireless)
Technology:
• Zoomable multimodal interface
(gesture and voice, intelligent
camera, cultural agents)
Mobile Interactive Broadcasting
A breakthrough in international events communication
• Access to a range of Wireless TV
channels
• News on special events,
schedules, last olympic or world
records, …
• Access to the programme and
broadcasts of each olympic facility
• Travel information and maps to the
olympic facilities
Works on PDA, smartphones, and PC
laptops using wireless IP connectivity
Marco Polo
automated and/or human assisted
instant translation of spoken sentences for travelers
International airport please
International airport place
• Record a sentence in your
own language and send it to
the translation service
through wireless IP
• Get the text back in the
source and target languages
• Play the translation with the
voice synthesizer
• Ask for human assistance
when needed
• Embedded wireless voiceover-IP telephony
Summary
• Working prototypes available
• Proven technology
• Actively seeking industrial partners for the development
of commercial products
Contacts
Gérard Chollet
[email protected]
Philippe Hervier
[email protected]
ZHUANG Zixin
[email protected]