Systems and methods for speech-to-speech translation

A computer-implemented method for translating speech from a first language to a second language, the method comprising:

• receiving an input speech sample on a computer system via an input device, the input speech sample spoken by a user in a first language;
• the computer system recognizing the input speech sample in the first language using the probability of receiving a basic sound unit based on a sequence of basic sound units in an N-gram statistical model;
• the computer system converting the input speech sample in the first language to text in the first language;
• the computer system translating the text in the first language to text in a second language;
• the computer system synthesizing the text in the second language into speech in the second language by determining corresponding basic sound units within a user phonetic dictionary in the unique voice of the user supplemented by basic sound units in a generic voice in the event a basic sound unit in the unique voice of the user is unavailable;
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• the computer system generating an output of the speech in the second language at least partially in the unique voice.

A system comprising:

• an electronic device comprising:
• a processor;
• an audio input device in electrical communication with the processor configured to receive an input speech sample from a user in a first language;
• an audio output device in electrical communication with the processor;
• processor-executable instructions in communication with the processor comprising:
• a speech recognition module configured to receive an input speech sample from the audio input device and convert the input speech sample to text in the first language using the probability of receiving a basic sound unit based on a sequence of basic sound units in an N-gram statistical model;
• a translation module configured to translate the text in the first language to text in a second language;
• a speech synthesis module configured to receive the text in the second language and determine corresponding basic sound units to thereby generate speech in the second language using basic sound units in the unique voice of the user supplemented by basic sound units in a generic voice in the event a basic sound unit in the unique voice of the user is unavailable.