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'Tower of Babel' Translator Under Development
monopole writes "The BBC is reporting on a bilingual translator under development by Carnegie Mellon University which senses sub-vocalized speech, recognizes it, translates it and then synthesizes the translation. The overall effect would be to dub the speech of the speaker."
The Tower of Babel Translator is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Tower of Babel Translator in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Tower of Babel Translator.
chinese people can now speak like poorly dubbed kung-fu movies in real life!
It's only a matter of time before this thing gets me fired.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
the last time i heard of people constructing a Tower of Babel, the whole world got toally pwned and no one could understand each other. well, not much different than it is now is it.
/not religious
Aw (not as in awe-struck...) shucks (not as in stripping corn stalks) you're such cunning linguist....
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Any chance it could correct Bush's english? Could help the rest of us understand what's he's trying to say.
"All your base are belong to us!"
Second Language? You might not even have to larn a first language! Just grunt. Mm.
Unexpect the expected!
Well luckily I've changed the article, so now sub vocal recognition is easy
I won't have to larn a frist linguage wunce I instorl firfox 2
The Tower of Babel Translator, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
Clerk: Ahh, matches!
Hungarian: Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Do you waaaaant...do you waaaaaant...to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
Clerk: Here, I don't think you're using that thing right.
Hungarian: You great
poof. Clerk: That'll be six and six, please.
-William Shatner can be neither created nor destroyed.
May the Maths Be with you!
Duh, that's easy, it's "small plastic brick" even kids know that !
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Must be Italian?