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Baidu Shows Off Its Instant Pocket Translator (technologyreview.com)
MIT Technology Review: Baidu showed off the speed of its pocket translator for the first time in the United States during an afternoon presentation at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference in San Francisco. The Chinese Internet giant has made significant strides improving machine language translation since 2015, using an advanced form of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, said Hua Wu, the company's chief scientist focused on natural-language processing. On stage, the Internet-connected device was able to almost instantly translate a short conversation between Wu and senior editor Will Knight. It easily rendered Knight's questions -- including "Where can I buy this device?" and "When will machines replace humans?" -- into Mandarin, and relayed Wu's responses in clear, if machine-inflected, English.
Right now voice recognition can't even accurately capture what I say, not a fucking hope it'll also be able to translate it to another language.
Example - the above sentence captured using MS speech recognition:
By now voice recognition come even actually capture what I say was that England can also be able to translate into another language
..and in Google Docs:
Right Now voice recognition can't even accurately capture what I say and I f****** hope it also go to translate it to another language
(yeah, Google add the *s)
Google's getting close, although it struggles a lot more at times, but even that is going to sound garbled as fuck when translated - and that's with a quality microphone and a silent room, no background noise, no other people speaking, no traffic, no shitty phone microphone.