translation

Thursday, July 2, 2009
Software

Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator Coming To IPhone, Blackberry

1:20AM Mark Wilson | Sakhr is a translation company with big clients like the U.S. Department of defence and Homeland Security. They specialise in English/Arabic translation, and this demo of their iPhone/Blackberry app (not publicly available) looks like the Holy Grail of translation software. More »
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Software

Softbank’s Speeek iPhone App Translates Spoken Japanese to English On the Fly

2:15AM John Mahoney | Speeek is an app that can recognise up to 1,500 spoken Japanese phrases and translate them into either English or Chinese. Pocket Babel Fish? Yes please. More »
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Random Stuff

Road Sign Translation Snafu Proves Machines Are Less Lazy Than Humans

6:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | What happens when you ask a guy to translate something for you into a language you don’t understand? This. The top part of the sign is in English, but when they emailed someone to translate that English into Welsh, the response actually said “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” That’s right, it’s an out of office message, which subsequently made it onto the road sign undetected. We hope those residents are getting used to Welsh truck drivers carrying heavy goods. [BBC - Thanks Christopher!] More »
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