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Can Your Mouth Become Multilingual?

Posted by Zonk on from the sign-me-up dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "During a videoconference last week between Karlsruhe, Germany, and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA, the talk of Alex Waibel, from CMU, was automatically translated in German and Spanish. Both the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PPG) and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PTR) attended the conference, took pictures and were impressed by this new 'open domain' speech-to-speech translation. This new computer technology is based on artificial intelligence (AI) and statistical methods. During the demonstration, the speaker had electrodes attached to his face and his neck, but the researchers think that these electrodes could be implanted into your mouth and your throat in a decade from now -- if you agree of course."

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  1. Absolutely! by DoraLives · · Score: 5, Funny
    the researchers think that these electrodes could be implanted into your mouth and your throat in a decade from now

    Oh yeah. Please. Right now. Insert the electrodes into me right now. I can't wait!

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    1. Re:Absolutely! by arose · · Score: 5, Funny

      Careful, sarcasm isn't translated by this system.

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  2. Re:Nothing to see here... by FlopEJoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why does he keep saying "My hovercraft is full of eels??"

  3. Re:A new form of slander and hate crime violations by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 5, Funny
    Would the CEO now be responsible for committing a hate crime, merely because this device mistranslated what he said, and output racist remarks?
    I will not repeat what Babelfish made of your post when it translated it into Dutch, but suffice to say you'll be hearing from my lawyer.
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