DARPA Project Babylon: Universal Translator

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!)"

Comments

Re:pattern recognition?

[gwernol]

The next big thing I think would be a "smart" translator that can do pattern recognition and "learn" as it gets more of the language. IIRC This is how the star trek translators work.

Not to nit-pick or anything, but Stra Trek translators do not work. They are fictional devices.

Re:Strikes me as fishy... -- funniest thing ever

[mantaco]

thank you for making my day -- this is easily the funniest thing ive read all week! (ps to everyone who totally missed the point: this is supposed to be funny/ironic; not serious.) -mantaco