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Google Home Gets Real-Time Interpretations For 27 languages (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Google Assistant has announced the introduction of real-time translations with Google Home speakers and third-party smart displays like those from JBL, Sony, and Lenovo. Interpretations will initially be available in 27 languages. From a report: Plans are to later bring real-time interpretations to mobile devices, but no date has been set, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat. Real-time interpretation with Google Assistant is the latest conversational AI milestone from Google, following the release of Duplex and Call Screen for Pixel phones in late 2018. But just like the first response to Duplex, you should taper your expectations. Initial demos by VentureBeat found Interpreter Mode to be quick in its response, but each exchange could last no more than 15 seconds, a limitation that makes Interpreter Mode helpful but not yet capable of handling the longer exchanges that often occur in a typical conversation.

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  1. But should you temper expectations? by raymorris · · Score: 1

    TFS says you should taper your expectations, going from thin to wide. Should also you temper them, counterbalancing hopeful expectations against the actual current capabilities?

    1. Re:But should you temper expectations? by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

      TFS says you should taper your expectations, going from thin to wide. Should also you temper them, counterbalancing hopeful expectations against the actual current capabilities?

      Sure, taper them, start out really excited and then slowly grow in disappointment. :)

    2. Re:But should you temper expectations? by butzwonker · · Score: 1

      You need go make make tapering fulfilments with Google translate product items, much fried rice.

    3. Re:But should you temper expectations? by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      Sure, taper them, start out really excited and then slowly grow in disappointment.

      As in the product will start out really good, then Google will inevitably ruin it and then eventually cancel it.

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  2. Baby Babble Fish For Free! by forkfail · · Score: 1

    Just let us listen to everything you say, ever...

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  3. Re:pointless article by Opportunist · · Score: 1

    27 is already easily the number of German dialects it would have to understand to even remotely stand a chance to understand Germans.

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  4. Re:pointless article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    https://www.theverge.com/2019/...

    Here's a full list of languages supported:

            Arabic
            Chinese
            Czech
            Danish
            Dutch
            English
            Finnish
            French
            German
            Greek
            Hindi
            Hungarian
            Indonesian
            Italian
            Japanese
            Korean
            Polish
            Portuguese
            Romanian
            Russian
            Slovak
            Spanish
            Swedish
            Thai
            Turkish
            Ukrainian
            Vietnamese

  5. Engrish by vladimir.sakharuk · · Score: 1

    Is my Engrish within the list, It used to be working, but after some upgrade 2 years ago stopped.