Google preparing to launch simultaneous translation service
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Thayenga 
Germany
Local time: 04:58
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So everything will then be machine translated/interpreted.
A genuine robot scenario straight from some Sci-Fi movie.
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| Good Luck ;) | Oct 20, 2010 |
I really want to see how the system will work with different pronunciations, dialectal expression and people (happened to me while interpreting on the phone) which mix up languages and in reality invent their own, inexistent, language (these are not rare cases either!)
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Anthony Baldwin
United States
Local time: 22:58
Portuguese to English
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| I can hardly wait! | Oct 20, 2010 |
It's going to provide tons of lovely fodder for jokes...
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What will they do with a country like Germany, where the dialect changes every five miles?
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| this does not deserve comments | Oct 22, 2010 |
no comment
[Edited at 2010-10-22 13:11 GMT]
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Michele Mann (X)
Italy
Local time: 04:58
Chinese to Italian
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| google translator/interpreter | Oct 22, 2010 |
Are we translators scared by google translator?? Can it does the work we do every day?
Everyone who tried to use it can say google translator is NOT a real translator. Neither will be google interpreter...for sure.
[Edited at 2010-10-22 14:21 GMT]
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 04:58
Member (2009)
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| Neither can I | Oct 22, 2010 |
Anthony Baldwin wrote:
It's going to provide tons of lovely fodder for jokes...
These machine translators are indeed good for a chuckle or two. Especially when they leave words unknown to it/them... untranslated.
Says it all, no?
Have a great weekend.
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 04:58
Member (2009)
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Werner Maurer wrote:
What will they do with a country like Germany, where the dialect changes every five miles?
Leave it untranslated. lol
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| Let Google translate robots... for other robots :) | Oct 23, 2010 |
So that's the final destiny of human beings -- to become robots. To be easily translated and even interpreted!
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Gone Native
Dominican Republic
Local time: 22:58
Dutch to English
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| R2D2 vs 3CPO | Oct 26, 2010 |
This should be fun, I would love to be there on the first board meeting Google interprets in, say. Belgium, (Pun intended, no insult.) They have so many dialects there, and THREE national languages. I don´t know for sure, but I would think even human interpreters may have a difficult time there.
You will need two robots, one to interpret the meeting, and one to interpret the 1st robot. R2D2 and 3CPO are a good example.
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Anthony Baldwin wrote:
It's going to provide tons of lovely fodder for jokes...
exactly
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Laurent KRAULAND (X)
France
Local time: 04:58
French to German
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Gone Native wrote:
This should be fun, I would love to be there on the first board meeting Google interprets in, say. Belgium, (Pun intended, no insult.) They have so many dialects there, and THREE national languages. I don´t know for sure, but I would think even human interpreters may have a difficult time there.
You will need two robots, one to interpret the meeting, and one to interpret the 1st robot. R2D2 and 3CPO are a good example.
how about Switzerland and its... FOUR official languages?
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veratek
Brazil
Local time: 23:58
French to English
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| news article link? | Dec 13, 2010 |
Does anyone have the link to the article or press release?
tks
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RominaZ
Argentina
English to Spanish
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