MS has a realtime (slight delay) English to Chinese speech translator working

[sdowney717]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/08/microsoft_english_chinese_demonstration/

It is an interesting idea. You speak English words, and the computer will generate Chinese spoken words.

I want to hear it go the other way, anyone have a link for that?

[Enigmapond]

Maybe you should ask M$....? You are in an Ubuntu forum. :D

[sdowney717]

A real time speech translator will be a killer must have type of app.
Is this being worked on for Linux anywhere?

[tgalati4]

Good for asking the waiter: "What is wiggling in my soup?"

"House Specialty."

[MadmanRB]

Well rather if Microsoft would port this over to anything other then windows is well obvious it is cool this exists.
So for once I say, great idea Microsoft, in a very sincere matter no less! :popcorn:

[Warpnow]

Age old idea from tons of sci-fi, the trick is getting it to work worth a damn. Wonder if they've succeeded....

[fontis]

Exciting!
Translation has always been a tricky issue.
I thought it was quite funny how they used "Bing translate" as the pinnacle of online translation... Google Translate is much older, better, reliable, faster, accurate and less cluttered :p


But hey. Promoters gotta promote

[Cheesemill]

Someone used the Microsoft API to create some Raspberry Pi powered translation glasses last July. Check it out...

http://www.willpowell.co.uk/blog/2012/07/22/project-glass-real-time-translation-inspired/

[lisati]

If it worked in both directions, would we be able to do something like puttin "Out of sight, out of mind" in one end, and have "invisible idiot" come out the other? :D

In other words, rumour has it that machine-assisted translation has its challenges.