The once fictional Star Trek Universal Translator comes into existence. | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72016321 Finland 07/29/2017 03:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They should test it on Finnish. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72016321 Every computer-based translator gets Finnish terribly, terribly wrong. German as well. They never can get the syntax right. German into straight english comes out sounding like yoda Autotranslated Finnish always comes out wrong in almost every way - syntactically, grammatically and contextually. It's because we don't do prepositions and pronouns are always gender neutral (sometimes you can't deduce the gender even from the context). Futhermore, nouns are declined in a complex way. [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] Finnish language has defeated all computer-based translation systems so far. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75262040 United States 07/29/2017 03:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A company named Voxonic in developed a translator to for actual sound over a decade ago. The first project was to translate all the JayZ albums into different languages. Then it disappeared. Video of Bill Clinton [link to www.dailymotion.com] Press release of the company [link to www.prweb.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 70240611 United States 11/05/2017 10:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bluetooth headset translates foreign languages in real-time Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater "As one person speaks, their sentence is sent through the headset to the smartphone. It is then translated into the desired language and spoken into the earpiece worn by the second person." [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Timekettle’s WT2 real-time translation earpieces enable ordinary conversation across language barriers [link to techcrunch.com (secure)] Chalk up another Star Trek device that has come to be reality. :kirkwee: you mean space soap opera? |