Machine translation faces final frontier: Worldly wisdom
From Monty Python’s ‘my hovercraft is full of eels’ sketch to endless Chinese sign fails, dodgy translations have long proven a source of amusement.
From Monty Python’s ‘my hovercraft is full of eels’ sketch to endless Chinese sign fails, dodgy translations have long proven a source of amusement.
Online translators are getting better, but there's still room for improvement. Researchers are now contributing new artificial intelligence techniques that could help accurately build full sentences.
Instant speech translation, a longtime dream of science-fiction writers, is already feasible in certain situations, vendors said at the Mobile Voice Conference in San Francisco on Thursday.
Travellers in or from East Asia may soon be able to turn to their cell phones for quick, easy and cheap translation help thanks to a new application from Toshiba.
Researchers at IBM say they have created smart software that that translates text between English and 11 other languages including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic.
The first iterations of something akin to the universal translators used on <em>Star Trek</em> may soon be arriving via your smartphone.
Google has brought out a translator toolkit that combines the company's machine translation technology with online tools for manually editing content.
Gmail users can now automatically translate messages they receive into 41 languages, Google <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-in-labs-automatic-message.html">announced</a> Tuesday.
Google has announced it will launch real-time language translation in Gmail this week.
Microsoft Research has released a Web application that can automatically translate Web sites into other languages.