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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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