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'Tower of Babel' Translator Under Development

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-did-he-say dept.

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."

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  1. Re:subvocalization by Instine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What would make it even harder is your brain would be trying to figure out what the 'noise' was every time you opened your mouth. Wouldn't a sound cancelling mask w mic embeded be more sensible. As the tech is there already. The tech they should be working on is THE TRANSLATION as I've yet to see 'good' English to anything machine translation....?

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