[1] The system is designed to enable soldiers or medics to converse with civilians in settings such as military checkpoints, door-to-door searches, or first aid situations.
[3] IraqComm integrates three software technologies: automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine translation (MT), and text-to-speech synthesis (TTS).
The MT module translates the phrase into the target language (e.g., Iraqi Arabic).
To simplify and speed up communication, the IraqComm interface provides a shortcut menu of frequently used phrases.
DynaSpeak speech recognition is also used in the Phraselator, a weatherproof handheld language translation device developed by VoxTec, a former division of the military contractor Marine Acoustics, located in Annapolis, MD.