Google Developing Real Time Speech to Speech Translation

Google is developing a real-time Speech to Speech translation for  mobile phones.With this it is easy to translate from foreign languages.That means, no need to learn foreign languages or no need to have a translator if you go abroad.All these things will be done by your SmartPhone.

Google speech to speech translation

Google already done the same for Computers.Now it is going to develop the same for the Mobile Phones.By building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hopes to have a basic system ready within a couple of years. If it works, it could eventually transform communication among speakers of the world’s 6,000-plus languages.

Head of translation services Franz Och said: “We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time.“Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that’s what we’re working on.”

‘Everyone has a different voice, accent and pitch,’ said Mr Och. ‘But recognition should be effective with mobile phones because by nature they are personal to you.’

The company has already created an automatic system for translating text on computers, which is being honed by scanning millions of multi-lingual websites and documents. So far it covers 52 languages, adding Haitian Creole last week.

Google also has a voice recognition program to search on the web.When you talk something, it will recognise your voice and will write the relevent words to search.

So what do you think about this new Technology.Please share here.

[source: thenextweb]

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