Is instant translation in any language now possible?
July 20, 2009 | Length: 00:01:49
Has the Star Trek Universal Translator arrived? Kristin Precoda, a speech translation researcher at SRI International demos a new translation system. Originally designed for the military to mediate a conversation between English and Iraqi Arabic, the translator is being developed for civilian use in the fields of medicine and general conversation.
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RE: Is instant translation in any language now possible?
Jayel Aheram
They have certainly come a long way. I am glad that they have continued with the project.
RE: Is instant translation in any language now possible?
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Load of bull
Speech recognition is a hard problem by itself, add to that the translation problem too and you won't get any satisfying results.
Just look at the result babblefish, google translate etc. and imagine if they had to understand the text from your voice.
Sure it looks well in lab environment with two people whose voice was used in the training of the system, and in a really limited context...
Don't expect any universal text translation/recognition any day soon.
asdasdasdaaaa thank you for you short..
I sent my Dad to Germany with a device lightyears behind what they convey in this article, and even he was impressed with the results!
The small device could be texted into and translate to German for the tourists. Even though our family is of German origin, we have forgotten a lot! We knew this ancient device(1980s), would be vastly improved on.
You can't compare obsolete technology like Babblefish or Alta Vista to be up to date, those free services have always been limited.
Besides - I would want my troops to have the very best - even IF they had to use my Dad's outdated technology!
Come on!!
RE: Is instant translation in any language now possible?
Please tell me how can you help me....
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Riyadh Al-Farhan
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Is instant translation in any language now possible?
I would think a filter half way between the earth and sun could be controlled in the summer period to tweak power balancethe heat absorption.. a disk rotating at a rate of 1 cycle every two years, with a controlled variable diameter to increase or lessen the heating effect..
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I want to learn different languages , and some speeches so can you help me in regards
Transcript
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>> Kristen Precoda: I'm Kristin Precoda. I'm the director of the speech technology and research lab at SRI International. And my laboratory works on research and development in speech technology.
MUSIC I've always loved languages and learning about different cultures, and speech technology is an exciting area to work in because everyone can relate to it. It makes an immediate impact on people's lives.
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>> How can I help you?
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>> The conflict started a month ago --
>> The system that we'll demonstrate today is a spoken-language translation system between English and Iraqi Arabic. It's designed to mediate a conversation between two people who don't share each other's language. It was developed primarily for military use, so it can handle military kinds of topics as well as medical, civil affairs, general conversation. I think a technology like this can be helpful for relatively focused discussions in a variety of languages where there just isn't enough time to train enough human interpreters.
>> What are his symptoms?
>> We certainly think a lot about the Star Trek universal translator. I think that's quite a long time in the future. Over the last several years there's been enormous progress in all areas. I would say that among them are the accuracy, the speed, the coverage, the breadth of coverage and the translation quality have all improved enormously. Eventually, these could be impacting on almost anyone's life who encounters a language barrier.
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