Google's "Babel Fish Mobile" Universal Translator Still Alive

[exfileme]

Google is still working on a real-time universal translator for phones.

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[Parsian]

but will it translate Klingon?

 

[ubercake]

This is awesome tech.

 

[WithoutWeakness]

The trickiest part of this that I can think of will be programming the app to translate what is spoken with proper grammar. Google Translate often fumbles with grammar and it will be even harder to execute properly on-the-fly in real time during a conversation.

 

[jdlobb]

Grammer would definitely be a troublesom point with realtime translation, as different languages structure the relationship between nouns, verbs, and adjectives differently. That being said, I think that is a severely minor issue. Most people are able to decifer the meaning of phrases in their native tounge, even if the grammer isn't perfect. If google tanslate tells me that "the red car moved", "the moved red car", or "the car red moved" I will still have a pretty good idea what's being said.

 

[jdlobb]

Grammer would definitely be a troublesom point with realtime translation, as different languages structure the relationship between nouns, verbs, and adjectives differently. That being said, I think that is a severely minor issue. Most people are able to decifer the meaning of phrases in their native tounge, even if the grammer isn't perfect. If google tanslate tells me that "the red car moved", "the moved red car", or "the car red moved" I will still have a pretty good idea what's being said.