Crowd-Source Translation Software For Free Content?

yahyamf writes "I have a lot of free educational content in the form of audio lectures and text, which I'd like to translate into as many languages as possible. I would also want to transcribe the audio and create audiobooks from the text. There are already several volunteers willing to contribute, but I need some web based software to manage all the work. Facebook is already doing something like this, but it is only for their content. I've also looked at Damned Lies, which is part of the Gnome project, but it doesn't seem to handle audio. Are there any other open source translation projects out there that I can customize and build upon?"

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durrr...my head herts..

[nawcom]

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=speech+recognition+open+source&l=1

Now was that too hard?

Open source audio translation?

[Red Flayer]

You've got to be kidding.

Currently there is software that can do parsing of speech into text not very well. Especially if you're dealing with multiple speakers, variable quality audio, etc.
Currently there is also software that can do translation of text between languages not very well. There's a reason professional translators are still in high demand (even for just written text).

You're looking for open source software that can combine both those into something effective? If you don't mind the translated audio being practically useless, then you might be able to find something.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but... good luck with that.