Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For iPhone 133
Ponca City, We love you writes "Dr. Dobbs reports that Alex Waibel, professor of computer science and language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa. Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the iPhone will respond with an audible translation. 'Jibbigo's software runs on the iPhone itself, so it doesn't need to be connected to the Web to access a distant server,' says Waibel. Waibel is a leader in speech-to-speech translation and multimodal speech interfaces, creating the first real-time, speech-to-speech translator for English, German and Japanese. 'Automated speech translation is an expensive proposition that has been supported primarily by large government grants,' says Waibel. 'But our sponsors are impatient to see this technology become more widely available and we, as researchers, are eager to find new revenues that will help us extend this technology to more of the 6,000 languages now spoken worldwide.'"
Testing the Hungarian version (Score:5, Funny)
My nipples explode with delight !
Re:Testing the Hungarian version (Score:5, Funny)
That's alright, I just want to see how well it translates "Dear Aunt, Let’s set so double the killer delete select all."
Vamos! (Score:5, Funny)
oblig Futurama quote (Score:5, Funny)
Where do I put the fish again? (Score:5, Funny)
Parece que he perdido mi copia de la guía, pero como yo soy un príncipe de Nigeria, con mucho gusto a comprar uno por $ 10 millones de dólares EE.UU., si usted me ayudará a transferir fondos de mi hermano, que ha robado mi difunto padre trono. Por favor, responda con su información bancaria para que podamos ayudarnos mutuamente.
Re:Testing the Hungarian version (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Speak simply (Score:4, Funny)
But are you cunning?
Re:Why 6,000 languages? (Score:4, Funny)
No, no, you've got it all wrong... (Score:3, Funny)
When everyone can just speak English?
See, this kind of Anglo-centric thinking gets us nowhere. We can't get everyone in the world to agree to adopt English as their preferred natural language... It'd never work, there would be too much resistance. People don't want to give up their native tongues to speak English.
No. Clearly the way to go is to get everyone to speak Esperanto.
Re:No, no, you've got it all wrong... (Score:4, Funny)
Until we all spreak Esperanto, I would hope that it contains an American to British English translator too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IX6K77zHwg [youtube.com]
(Not the Chaser's best, but will do.)
Re:Speak simply (Score:4, Funny)
(I am a native French speaker.)
Well, in that case you may not entirely understand English. Perhaps you really are not chocolate, have you checked lately?