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DARPA Starts Ultimate Language Translation Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the teach-it-klingon-first-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched the ultimate speech translation engine project that would be capable of real-time interpretation of television and radio programs as well as printed or online textual information in order to be summarized, abstracted, and presented to human analysts emphasizing points of particular interest." If combined with the tower of babel project we discussed earlier, it could only lead to awesomeness.

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  1. Ultimate Defense by Speare · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just feed this new system a few reruns of Japanese television game shows. After that, we will be safe from automated snooping for at least another decade. As a plus, all artificial intelligence projects at the DARPA will be set back by another decade as well.

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  2. Re:Humans??? by 3waygeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, but Hoshi Sato won't be born for another 100 years or so...

  3. This could be dangerous... by FuryG3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ultimate Language Translation researchers should probably compete along a stretch of the Mojave desert so as not to injure or offend nearby native speakers

  4. Re:When will it affect me? by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 2, Funny

    You get what you paid for.

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  5. You can't impeech his speach :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... speach researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has recently demoed a prototype of a device ...