14. The system of claim 10 , wherein the training component utilizes a class-discriminant function, defining a class-specific misclassification function, and a smoothing function from which is derived a total loss function.
10. A computer-implemented training system for speech translation, comprising: a discriminative training component derived from a decision rule of a speech translation component, the speech translation component recognizes speech input using a recognition process and translates a recognition output to multiple hypotheses as translation output using a machine translation process, the discriminative training component includes an objective function that integrates the recognition process and the machine translation process; a scoring component that scores the multiple hypotheses of the statistical machine translation process based on the decision rule and outputs a final set of translated output from the multiple hypotheses; and a processor that executes computer-executable instructions associated with at least the training component and the scoring component.