parce que pour une conf de press il faut : faire des dossiers de press, tester, acceuillir les journalistes, mettre en ordre la salle, etre sure que le petit dej sera pres a temps, et savoir ce qu'on va mettre et se lever a 6:00am

J'ai vu une journaliste de NPR, elle ressemblait a Sophsouris. peut etre a cause du pull violet :-)

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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- EVENT: See Carnegie Mellon University
researchers demonstrate new breakthroughs in cross lingual communication and
speech-to-speech translation with their colleagues at the University of
Karlsruhe in Germany in an international videoconference. Computer science
professor Alex Waibel will demonstrate domain-independent, speech-to-speech
translation in a lecture, which will be simultaneously translated from English
to Spanish to German. Current systems allow translation of spontaneous speech
in very limited situations, like making hotel reservations or tourist
shopping, but they cannot enable translation of lectures, television
broadcasts, meetings or telephone conversations. The new technology fills that
gap and makes it possible to extend such systems to other languages and
lecture types. Waibel also will illustrate new ways of delivering speech
translation services, including an array of small ultra-sound speakers that
can deliver a narrow beam of audio in a foreign language to a particular
individual, while others nearby hear the same speech in the original language
as it's spoken without disturbance. Foreign language translation also can be
produced through a system that tracks and measures electrical currents on the
surface of a person's cheek and throat as they mouth words instead of speaking
aloud. The system takes the signal off of electrodes that recognize muscle
movement, translates and delivers it as audible sound in another language.
Waibel and his colleagues also will demonstrate delivery of speech via heads-
up display and text, a PDA-based pocket interpreter for fieldwork such as
medical relief or military operations, as well as simultaneous translation of
videos of European Parliamentary sessions.