Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Jeong-Se Kim

Sang-Kyu Park

Sang-Hun Kim

Seung Yun

Min-Kyu Lee

Soo-Jong Lee

The present invention relates to an automatic translation and interpretation apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a speech input unit for receiving a speech signal in a first language. A text input unit receives text in the first language. A sentence recognition unit recognizes a sentence in the first language desired to be translated by extracting speech features from the speech signal received from the speech input unit or measuring a similarity of each word of the text received from the text input unit. A translation unit translates the recognized sentence in the first language into a sentence in a second language. A speech output unit outputs uttered sound of the translated sentence in the second language in speech. A text output unit converts the uttered sound of the translated sentence in the second language into text transcribed in the first language and outputs the text.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Jeong-Se Kim