Ping 210: Bing is five, Kinect v2, Computex hardware, Skype translator and Forza Horizon 2!

The Discussion

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  1. Definitely give +1 to keep pinging card.
  Anyway even if we don't comment we definetely
  watch the Ping. For my side I normally watch a week or two late, so commenting is useles.
  
  Sum: Ping is cool.
  
  2. Also my favorite game from the previous generation.. Bubble Bobble.
  Until now (at least for me) nothing came closer to game experience.
  I played a lot of UT2004, but since then life takes precedence.
  
  Keep up the good work.
  Waldemar
  

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  The Skype translator is just cool.

  @E3 - Can you get more info on Halo 5?

   

  haiku:

  Microsoft Surface
  I have to shell out my cash
  can I get one free?

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  Microsoft Speech Recognition, Google Translate, Bing Translate
  Why would real-time translation ever be so hard?
  Is syncing ten messages on my phone without crashing or lagging really that hard?

  Honestly though, I am not really "blown off the chair" by the real-time translation because we basically had the technology for doing this for a very long time. Someone can just write an app that takes a parsed input of text from Speech Recognition and put it forward to either Bing or Google Translate. Whether any of those have a neural-network for translating is another thing. But I am just curious, why is it so hard to make a Skype app for my phone that doesn't lag or crash when a handful of messages are synced to my phone?