"BabelDr: Spoken Language Translation of Dialogues in the Medical Domain"
At the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Geneva's largest hospital, 52% of all patients are foreign nationals and more than 10% speak no French at all. In the context of the ongoing European refugee crisis, the medical professionals at HUG, particularly in the emergency and immigrant health service departments, often find they have no language in common with a patient. Particularly important languages are Tigrinya, Arabic and Farsi; as of September 2015, Eritreans, Syrians and Afghans make up about 60% of all new asylum seekers. Language barriers of this kind pose serious problems regarding the quality, security and equitability of health care, a phenomenon which has been the subject of detailed investigation by several teams over the last twenty years.
The project's site at HUG.
Dr. Hervé Spechbach talks about BabelDr at the Radio Télévision Suisse.
Tribune de Genéve hosted an article about BabelDr.
On the 8th of October 2018 our project won the third prize at the Journée de l’innovation!
