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Google Translator Phone Could Instantly Translate As You Talk

First Posted: 04/10/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:25 PM ET

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GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly -- like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

By building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hopes to have a basic system ready within a couple of years.

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GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly -- like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. By building on existing t...
GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly -- like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. By building on existing t...
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01:57 PM on 02/08/2010
I'll bet the NSA will be very happy that Google's software can transcribe every conversation in the USA and send it right into an NSA database.
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