2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151465In this paper we describe how the translation methodology adopted for the Spoken Language Translator (SLT) addresses the characteristics of the speech translation task in a context where it is essential to achieve easy customization to new languages and new domains. We then discuss the issues that arise in any attempt to evaluate a speech translator, and present the results of such an evaluation carried out on SLT for several language pairs.10 pages, needs aclap.sty. To appear in Spoken Language Translation workshop at (E)ACL-97Computation and Languagetext