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DARPA Project Babylon: Universal Translator

Posted by michael on from the unleash-the-kitty dept.

silance writes "Take a look at this project from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)! This time the boys are trying to hammer out a portable, two-way, real-time, multi-lingual audible speech translator proposed to be run on everything from PDA's to wearable military hardware to workstations (to replace their PRE-EXISTING ONE-WAY real-time hand-held audible translators, of course!). The site contains descriptions of technical approaches, a technical milestones timeline, and a nifty Power Point presentation for the executive-types ;) They should give William Shatner a beta model out of pure respect... Here's a link to Google's cached HTML version of the Power Point presentation just in case. (P.S. - get a load of that logo at the bottom of the page!)"

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  1. Shall we unleash the Kitty?, YES! by CitznFish · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is that code for wasting an exhorbinant amount of taqxpayers dollars? That PPT presentation looks like it was done by a 4th grader..LOL! Go US ARMY!

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    1. Re:Shall we unleash the Kitty?, YES! by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      The days of the 300 dollar toilet seats is from the era of sealed bids that the militray had to accept no matter what.

      A contractor hears about an obscure bid, then submits a crazy bid in hopes he gets it. He does, the military is screwed.

      It's a legacy of the Democrat controlled Senate from the early 60s.

      The system was reformed in the late 80s under intense pressure from the Reagan and Bush administrations.