Thursday, October 26, 2006

Tower of Babel Translator

Just in time for parshat Noach, we get this from the BBC (carrying over a story from New Scientist), about something being developed at Carnegie Mellon University:


A "Tower of Babel" device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists.

Users simply have to silently mouth a word in their own language for it to be translated and read out in another.

The researchers said the effect was like watching a television programme that had been dubbed.

The system, detailed in New Scientist, is not yet fully accurate, but experts said it showed the technology was "within reach".

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The team currently has two prototypes: one that can translate Chinese into English and another that can translate English into Spanish or German.

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Read it all here.

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