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Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-your-phone-do-the-talking dept.

judgecorp writes "Google Translate for Android, the mobile version of Google's machine translation software, now translates speech back and forth between 14 languages, the company claims. Earlier this year the company added Conversation Mode, which lets users to translate chats between English and Spanish. Now Google has made the tool available from Android 2.2 handsets and later in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish. The arrival of Siri on the iPhone could spark serious competition in translation systems on phones."

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  1. Re:How long until... by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dangerous times lay ahead when asking your appliances anything about tossed salad.

  2. Re:Siri and translation by brunokummel · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...... Siri: usable natural language voice recognition (at least that's how they sell it) .....

    Japanese people beg to differ... :D

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  3. I'm looking forward to the day... by mswhippingboy · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm looking forward to the day when both iOS and Android devices both have continuous speech recognition tied to chatter-bot apps so that we can just sit back and watch them argue amongst themselves about which is better, thereby saving ./ 80% of the conversion space.

    Then we can focus on something really important like who was more influential - Dennis Ritchie or Steve Jobs....

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