Translator Phone by Google
According to a latest report Google is gearing up for the release of a Mobile phone. This particular phone would be capable to translate foreign languages in a japp. Including voice recognition & automatic translation is among the main focus of the company.
The current translation system for Computers by google has 52 languages & now Google has also included a voice recognition system that will again enable users to use it through mobile phone and do searches online. It is also suggested that launch of this mobile phone might take a few more years.
We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time,” said Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services. “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. If you look at the progress in machine translation and corresponding advances in voice recognition, there has been huge progress recently,” he adds.
However, it seems that the main challenge comes from recognizing the voice, mainly given the fact that “everyone has a different voice, accent and pitch,” as Och says. However, the software should become more accurate as it is used, not to mention that Google is also working on enhancing its accuracy. “The more data we input, the better the quality. There are a lot of language enthusiasts out there,” Och said, adding that help is needed. Even so, it will still take a long time before a mobile phone with these features is launched on the market.
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