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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. Re:Give it to Hoshi by dimator · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I'll second the "cute" thing. They knew what they were doin when they picked the female cast members this time around.

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  2. Shatner Denied by Mulletproof · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Absolutely no way he deserves one of these. You know why? No, not because he starred in TJ Hooker, but for his latest sin-- Iron Chef: USA . It's like watching bad WWF acting mixed with Boxing announcers talking about food. It's so bad... He just can't sink much lower than this... Well, he could do another Trek, movie, but that not withstanding...

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  3. Re:pattern recognition? by rudiger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    i don't know why so many people get that quote wrong, but it is "set up us the bomb".