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Not sure if fake but incredible if this is real, just like the universal translator in Star Trek!
Real time spoken language translator
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I've seen people being overly optimistic about this. From what I've read it's nothing new. All they've done is tied a bluetooth headset to an app that most likely takes STT > Translate > TTS.
Not sure on what speech to text engine they're using yet (would have to be a fair jump from modern tech) nor do I know the translation engine but it seems all but confirmed it's using googles.
The only way I'll buy this is if they call it Babel
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Not sure on what speech to text engine they're using yet (would have to be a fair jump from modern tech) nor do I know the translation engine but it seems all but confirmed it's using googles.
The only way I'll buy this is if they call it Babel
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This is the future humons.
The only way I'll buy this is if they call it Babel
Quite. First thing I thought of when he said "stick this in your ear"
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Quite. First thing I thought of when he said "stick this in your ear"
Damn you! I came here to post that exact same thing.
I can see this ending badly given how awful some speech recognition is. "Excuse me, what is your name?" Becomes "**** on me, I think you are gay?" Etc...
Indeed. Mix that with translation engine fails you could end up looking like a right prat/getting slapped.
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/10-google-translate-fails.html
These were all legitimate at one point not sure if it's still the same though.
I can see this ending badly given how awful some speech recognition is. "Excuse me, what is your name?" Becomes "**** on me, I think you are gay?" Etc...
lol
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"My hovercraft is full of eels!"
I can see this ending badly given how awful some speech recognition is. "Excuse me, what is your name?" Becomes "**** on me, I think you are gay?" Etc...
I tried it for the first time in years the other day, was driving and wanted to reply to a message to say I was running late - so tried the voice to text thing - it worked perfectly. Was just a default ios keyboard option, no training. I had internet so it could well have sent it to California to apply several gigaflops to it, but I got the right result so who cares
That's a good pick up line.
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I tried it for the first time in years the other day, was driving and wanted to reply to a message to say I was running late - so tried the voice to text thing - it worked perfectly. Was just a default ios keyboard option, no training. I had internet so it could well have sent it to California to apply several gigaflops to it, but I got the right result so who cares
+1 My google speech recognition rarely gets anything wrong these days. Except welsh place names, then I might as well be speaking Chinese...
The french girl is cute, so I can understand why he'd want to talk with her.
Interesting. I was thinking that he'd gone to a lot of effort for a plain Jane with potentially furry armpits.
I tried it for the first time in years the other day, was driving and wanted to reply to a message to say I was running late - so tried the voice to text thing - it worked perfectly. Was just a default ios keyboard option, no training. I had internet so it could well have sent it to California to apply several gigaflops to it, but I got the right result so who cares
I find it works perfectly when you speak clearly, I've sent a long email using voice recognition when driving before, and I looked at it when I arrived at work and it came out fine. I was a bit worried that it might not have done and I might have inadvertently sent something daft!
The second you speak a little too quickly, or if there is some background noise etc, it all gets a bit temperamental. So I'm not sure how practical it will be in social situations, public places, etc.
I'd prefer to make sure it has actually detected what I've said first, but if I did that it would no longer be "real time".
Interesting one though, if implemented properly. And of course these things are forever improving!