Comment Feed for Channel 9 - TechFest 2010: The Translating Telephone http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/533802_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - TechFest 2010: The Translating Telephone Soon the language barrier will no longer be an issue. This piece of technology allows two users, speaking different languages, to communicate instantly. The speakers audio is turned into text, then that text is translated into another language and spoken aloud to the other party in the conversation. This could truly change the world. en Sun, 19 May 2013 02:10:54 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 02:10:54 GMT Rev9 Re: TechFest 2010: The Translating Telephone Great stuff, but it has to be almost perfect, otherwise ... well, dependency on an unreliable system could result in serious mistakes, and face it, everyone would try to use it (eventually) instead of really learning another language, because it's easier.  That kinda scares me.  Keep working on it. Smiley

posted by Richard.Hein

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634032507390000000 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:05:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634032507390000000 Richard.Hein Re: TechFest 2010: The Translating Telephone In contrast, I think this might greatly improve the way we learn languages. Speak a phrase, have it transated, spoken and written on the screan. That way, you can hear and read the phrase in the foreign language.

 

And on a side note: It's great to see that the first "foreign" language is German!

posted by Banjobeni

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634032578880000000 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:04:48 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634032578880000000 Banjobeni Re: TechFest 2010: The Translating Telephone Been hearing about systems like this for 15-20 years. It seems obvious - marry speech recognition with natural language translation and speech synthesis and you've got your universal translator. Except that nobody has demonstrated phone-based speech recognition that's accurate enough without training, natural langugae translations are notoriously laughable and even speech synthesis is much harder than it appears. The limitations in any of these three stages are tollerable in isolation, but in series it would be unuseable.

posted by rhm

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634032613600000000 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:02:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634032613600000000 rhm Re: TechFest 2010: The Translating Telephone Yea, or if you know how to spell something in a different language, have this pronounce this back to you correctly.  I'd love to have this type of service help people learn a language with a teacher or interpreter.  I think the possibilities are endless for applications.  Even if you are in a foreign country, get out your phone, record the person and have it repeat the phrase back to you, it would make paper dictionaries mute.

posted by ChrisStepaniuk

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634033223280000000 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:58:48 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634033223280000000 ChrisStepaniuk Re: TechFest 2010: The Translating Telephone That would definitely be useful. Smiley

posted by Richard.Hein

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634042285090000000 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:41:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634042285090000000 Richard.Hein Re: TechFest 2010: The Translating Telephone Yup it does look very nice. Smiley

posted by petersan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634151908050000000 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:46:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/TechFest-2010-Translating-Telephone#c634151908050000000 petersan