The Google folks are always busy in their labs bringing new technology to the users and enhancing the existing applications for a better user experience. Giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is bringing new translator software for an instant translation of the foreign language, reports Times Online.
The software will use the information learned from the company’s text translation software but will only be able to analyze small segments of speech before translation. But with time, we may expect an improved performance with longer segments like communicating in another language during a normal conversation on the phone.
“We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time,” said Google’s head of translation devices, Franz Och. “Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that’s what we’re working on.”
The analysts and industry experts point to the challenges of voice pitch and accent but Google’s large database of translated documents will surely come to the company’s aid. Google’s automatic translation system at present covers 52 languages but if Google succeeds in its endeavor, the mobile version will revolutionize the communication supporting more than 6000 languages of the world. Excited! The only sad news is that this big change, will take few years to roll out and reach to perfection.
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Nice technology hope it can help a lot and fasten our communication
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jolinarodriguez
Check this universal language translator for the smartphone….
from the guys at Mojofiti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx8nGtYchhI