Google working on speech-to-speech translator for Android phones
I’ve got an app on my Droid now that translates most languages using text-to-speech and doesn’t do a bad job on simple sentences but being able to say something into your phone and then hold it up so the other person can listen to what you just said in their own language will be amazing.
Google leaps language barrier with translator phone
GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly — like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
By building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hopes to have a basic system ready within a couple of years. If it works, it could eventually transform communication among speakers of the world’s 6,000-plus languages.
“We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time,” said Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services.
“Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that’s what we’re working on.
Read more at technology.timesonline.co.uk
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RT @hughbriss Google working on speech-to-speech translator for Android phones http://amplify.com/u/1sko Cool. Wonder if Nuance is involved.
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