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Google demos conversation mode for Google Translate
Google Translate is a great tool when you're reading webpages in another language, but it's not much help when you're having a conversation. Well, that might change soon, as Google recently demoed a live version of Translate for conversations. That's right: you speak it, and Google translates it on the fly and reads it back in your target language.
Google has started testing this new conversation mode and had successful bilingual conversations, including a demo at a conference in Germany earlier this month. No word on whether there will be a web version of conversation mode, or just a feature in the Android app, but either way, this is the kind of magical future technology we've been seeing in movies and TV shows for years, and now we'll be able to have it in our pockets. Heck, it might be worth the international roaming charges to load up your Android phone with this bad boy and take it on vacation!
Check out the video demo after the jump. It's not perfect, but it's very impressive.
[via Google Operating System]
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Subscribe to commentsSybilWatanabe413546Sep 29th 2010 2:38AM
I agree those things are holding back progress, but what can Google do about it? Create the Google Broadcasting Company? Man, if you thought they were pervasive before! Hopefully the introduction of 4G will increase online viewing even more, so that companies like Comcast, Time Warner, etc, will begin to make the natural step of moving their cable services to internet services.
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KrazyCalvinSep 29th 2010 2:37AM
Why is it that every time I try to use google translate to translate some song lyrics from japanese to english it just gives me the same phrase?
sunk818Sep 30th 2010 11:57AM
And to think you could hire some village in Vietnam for $0.30 an hour for Live Chat support. The workers wouldn't even have to know English, thanks to Google Translate.