Google already runs a flourishing online translator, Google Translate, but they’ve got far-loftier ideas than merely converting the written word. They want to decode languages spoken over the phone, according to their head of translation services.
Presently, Google’s text translation service covers 52 languages, together with the addition of Haitian Creole last week. Google has developed its text translation examine by crawling and comparing millions of multi-lingual websites and documents. It then uses this translation data to offer text and website translation to users of this translation service.
On the mobile side of its business, Google has released a voice search scheme for Android’s 2.x version. Users can speak into a handset mic and Google’s voice search system will identify the spoken words and perform a search. For the live voice translation service which Google’s Franz Och is developing, this voice search method and Google’s text translation service would be combined to instantly translate spoken voice.
As of yet, no dates or technical details have been revealed about the coming of Google’s live voice translation service. This technology would be a greeting addition to Android or any mobile phone service, as our continually globalizing economy may yield a larger need for voice translation.
1 comments:
Why not look long term and have a spoken international language, used on a person-to-person basis :)
We seem to be back to Esperanto here. Just have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LPVcsL2k0
Dr Kvasnak teaches English at Florida Atlantic University.
A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net
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