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Feb 10

Google is Working on Speech-to-Speech Translation

Google is Working on Speech-to-Speech Translation for Android. According to Times Online, Google is developing a speech-to-speech automated translator for Android phones. It’s essentially a combination of two of Google’s existing technologies; its online universal translator service, Google Translate, and its voice recognition system.

…’ing tastic :D vishi96Most of Google’s mobile products are accurate, they are all innovative and cool, but do not provide that accuracy needed.http://www.dumblittleblogger.com/ Dave FlueggeThere is already an android program called “Talk to Me”. It does a very good job of using google translate. A user tells it what language to translate into (only spanish, french, german, italian), and you just press the button and speak. It analyzes, translates, and speaks the translation. It works surprisingly well, but I’m excited b/c if Google decides to tackle it, I’m sure it will be good. George StanleyGood call. I just installed that app and it’s great!It would be nice if you could select another source language to get a 2 way conversation going, but it’s good for berating people 1 way :) uupinko998Wow, that is amazing. IM actually starting to think about dumping my Iphone for the Droid!Jesswww.private-surfing.be.tc Dich thuat Viet Great efforts of Google. Jeff TaylorWell, I think that decides the HTC Touch Pro vs….

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Feb 10

Google’s Real-Time Voice Translator

Google engineers are working on a translator for Google Android smartphones to convert one language into another quickly enough to allow speakers without a common language to communicate with one another in near real time.

…which is why, to date, the translators we’ve seen are basically elaborate gimmicks, limited by the size of their dictionaries and inability to parse phrases.
As usual, Google’s goal is loftier: to enable real-time translation of spoken meaning, rather than just words. To do this, the company is cobbling together its voice recognition, 52-language text translation, and text-to-speech technologies into a unified voice-to-voice translator. (Actually, the full path would be voice-to-text-to-translation-to-voice. )
We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time, Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services, told Times Online. 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.
Google has at least two tricks up its sleeve for improving the accuracy of its translation system: crawling web pages and documents in various languages to improve its…

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Feb 10

Google introduces developer G1 Phones

Google has just announced the availability of a developer phone that can be purchased by registered Android Developers. Costing $399 (roughly the same price as a contract-free G1 phone from T-Mobile), the phone offers an unlocked bootloader and allows easy flashing for the installation of custom Android builds.

…Google has just announced the availability of a developer phone that can be purchased by registered Android Developers. Costing $399 (roughly the same price as a contract-free G1 phone from T-Mobile), the phone offers an unlocked bootloader and allows easy flashing for the installation of custom Android builds. It is available for purchase in 18 international markets. You must join the $25 Android Marketplace program in order to purchase a device. Regular users interested in an unlocked phone are being warned that these units are intended for developers only and are to be used at your own risk….

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