Google is Working on Speech-to-Speech Translation for Android
In Douglas Adams’s humorous sci-fi novel series Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a special kind of fish is mentioned — the Babel Fish. When inserted into the ear, it translates any spoken language into whichever language the listener understands. It is a very nifty device, and now Google seeks to create something similar. According to Times Online, Google is developing a speech-to-speech automated translator for Android phones . It’s essentially a combination of two of Google’s existing technologies; its online universal translator service, Google Translate , and its voice recognition system. Google plans to make its Babel Fish a lot like a human translator; the software would analyze chunks of speech, …
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