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Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For iPhone
Ponca City, We love you writes "Dr. Dobbs reports that Alex Waibel, professor of computer science and language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa. Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the iPhone will respond with an audible translation. 'Jibbigo's software runs on the iPhone itself, so it doesn't need to be connected to the Web to access a distant server,' says Waibel. Waibel is a leader in speech-to-speech translation and multimodal speech interfaces, creating the first real-time, speech-to-speech translator for English, German and Japanese. 'Automated speech translation is an expensive proposition that has been supported primarily by large government grants,' says Waibel. 'But our sponsors are impatient to see this technology become more widely available and we, as researchers, are eager to find new revenues that will help us extend this technology to more of the 6,000 languages now spoken worldwide.'"
My nipples explode with delight !
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Vamos a arruinar una bonita playa.
MABASPLOOM!
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: [Professor Farnsworth is showing Cubert, his clone, some of his inventions] And this is my Universal Translator. Unfortunately, so far it only translates into an incomprehensible dead language. Cubert J. Farnsworth: [into the translator's microphone] Hello. Universal Translator: Bonjour! Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Crazy gibberish!
-Ours is the wisdom of Solomon, the magic of Merlyn, the fall of Icaris.
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The Geek in Black
I know my BCD's (when I'm Sober)
But are you cunning?
We use the other languages to make fun of you.
When everyone can just speak English?
See, this kind of Anglo-centric thinking gets us nowhere. We can't get everyone in the world to agree to adopt English as their preferred natural language... It'd never work, there would be too much resistance. People don't want to give up their native tongues to speak English.
No. Clearly the way to go is to get everyone to speak Esperanto.
Bow-ties are cool.
(I am a native French speaker.)
Well, in that case you may not entirely understand English. Perhaps you really are not chocolate, have you checked lately?
Disclaimer: I am not god.
We may not be created equal
But we can be treated equal.