If you think about it, it'd be slightly inaccurate to say that phones let people all over the world communicate with each other; current tech just transmits sounds, not their significance. But Google's looking to knock down language barriers with devices that will perform translations on the fly.
This isn't some poorly sourced rumor or random conspiracy theory. Chris Gourlay interviewed Franz Och, Google's head of translation services, and Och said, "We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years' time."
Incredible as that might seem, the building blocks are already in place. Android allows users to perform searches by just saying terms out loud. Google Translate deals in 52 languages at the moment. Google only needs to integrate... [View Full Article]
If you think about it, it'd be slightly inaccurate to say that phones let people all over the world communicate with each other; current tech just transmits sounds, not their significance. But Google's looking to knock down language barriers with devices that will perform translations on the fly.
This isn't some poorly sourced rumor or random conspiracy theory. Chris Gourlay interviewed Franz Och, Google's head of translation services, and Och said, "We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years' time."
Incredible as that might seem, the building blocks are already in place. Android allows users to perform searches by just saying terms out loud. Google Translate deals in 52 languages at the moment. Google only needs to integrate... [via WebProNews]
