Google has always offered excellent text-to-text translation services, now the company is apparently working on Smartphone software that would allow users to talk in their own language, while having their speech immediately translated into the language of whomever their speaking to. The software would greatly benefit overseas travelers and business executives who often must rely on [...]

Language lessons may be a thing of the past if Google cracks the live voice translation technology.

A report published in the Times Online highlights an ambitious plan of Google Inc to develop mobile phone software that is capable of translating foreign languages without the need of any human intervention. The feature would be near real time translation and would build on some of Google’s other technologies and platforms including voice recognition software [...]

Remember the original Babel Fish? Or those translator microbes in Farscape? Now Google is working on bringing near real-time speech translation…to phones.

Maidenhead, United Kingdom – 8th February 2010 – SDL, the provider of Global Information Management solutions today announced that over 200 customers of SDL’s translation management systems are now accessing SDL’s translation management technology through ‘The Cloud’ or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Google on Sunday revealed that it could be the first to enable voice-to-voice translation for phones. Using the existing text conversion and voice recognition its search and from Android, the company is developing a system that could recognize a spoken foreign language and recite it back in the user’s native tongue. It would sort speech into segments and would analyze both the pattern of speech …

Google already runs a successful online translator, Google Translate, but they’ve got far-loftier ideas than simply converting the written word. They want to translate languages spoken over the phone, according to their head of translation services. (more…)

Head of translation services Franz Och tells The Sunday Times that the search giant is closing in on speech-to-speech translation.

Google has already pushed language translation forward online with it’s Google Translate service and its integration into services such as Google Reader. But the search giant has set itself a much greater challenge with the promise of an automatic speech translation service for cell phones. The idea is the equivalent of producing a universal translator that [...]

Language lessons may be a thing of the past if Google cracks the live voice translation technology it admits it’s been working on.

1106 — A Napa County sheriff’s deputy requested translation assistance with a Spanish-speaking subject on Garden Avenue. A Spanish-speaking officer responded.

Attending Bellevue physician and prolific author Danielle Ofri shares tales of her patients’ paths through life.

US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the first operating system in the national language of Ethiopia, the official news agency said Saturday.

A preliminary inquiry is typically a secretive process. Sweeping publication bans prohibit reporting of most of what is said but the courtroom remains open to spectators. Any citizen can show up and listen in.[...]

1106 — A Napa County sheriff’s deputy requested translation assistance with a Spanish-speaking subject on Garden Avenue. A Spanish-speaking officer responded.

The third lecture in the 2009-10 Horning Lecture Series,”Translation: Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures,” is scheduledfor 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Memorial Union Journey Room atOregon State University.

Starring: Review: This shameless tearjerker is Hollywood’s alternative assault on Super Bowl weekend. Translation: While guys grunt and stuff their faces in front of large-screen TVs, women will line up to luxuriate in a bubblebath made from essence of Nicholas Sparks. You know who Sparks is, the guy who writes bestselling weepies that become appalling movies, such as The Notebook, Message in a …

By: Maha Kamal Physician and author Danielle Ofri presented her new book “Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients,” specifically linking it to the current state of American health care at The First Parish Church in Cambridge on Wednesday. …

Vratislav Brabenec is a member of the band The Plastic People of the Universe, a thorn in the side of Czechoslovakia’s communist regime. But Mr Brabenec is also the author of a book of stories for children, called The Centre of the World is Everywhere, which is now also available in an English translation.

Temple Grandin is one of the world’s greatest animal behaviorists. She is also autistic — and has put that to work for her. Grandin has written several books on animals, including Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior . This weekend, HBO will premiere a made-for-TV movie based on her life.

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