Times Online reports that, Google is developing “speech-to-speech translation” software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly. The basic system is expected to be ready within a couple of years.
Google already has a web based automatic translation tool for translating text on computers and so far it covers 52 languages. Google also has a voice recognition system that enables phone users to conduct web searches by speaking commands into their phones rather than typing them in. The new technology combines these two technologies to produce software capable of understanding a caller’s voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language.
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