Elsie The Quick Reaction Spoken Language Translation Qrslt

The objective of this effort was to develop a prototype, hand-held or body-mounted spoken language translator to assist military and law enforcement personnel in interacting with non-English-speaking people. Spoken language translation technology accepts speech input in one human language and generates its computer-spoken translation in another human language. The QRSLT system, nicknamed "ELSIE", demonstrates two-way translation within military and law enforcement vocabularies between English and Spanish, and to a lesser extent between English and Mandarin Chinese and between English and Korean. The system is an innovative advance over currently available "speaking translators" which produce speech based on typed inputs, cannot accept spoken input, and are not customized for military for law enforcement operations. Participation in Global Patriot.