Jakarta, Indonesia

In this paper, we present a report on the re-search and development of speech to speech translation system for Asian lan-guages, primarily on the design and im-plementation of speech recognition and machine translation systems for Indonesia language. As part of the A-STAR project, each participating country will need to de-velop each component of the full system for the corresponding language. We will specifically discuss our method on building speech recognition and stochastic language model for statistically translating Indone-sian into other Asian languages. The sys-tem is equipped with a capability to handle variation of speech input, a more natural mode of communication between the sys-tem and the users.