Here's another lead.  Science Daily just had an article at:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990723084011.htm

"Carnegie Mellon Scientists Demonstrate Spontaneous Speech 
Translation In Six Languages" which reads in part:

Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR) are 
conducting an international video conference to demonstrate a travel 
planning system on the Web, which employs groundbreaking computer 
speech-to-speech translation technology that can translate among 
six languages at six different locations around the world. 

Dick