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"Technology to translate in real-time already exists" No. It does not. I do some translation work and a lot of multilingual interaction. There is no decent tra
by WildUtah 10y ago
"Technology to translate in real-time already exists"
No. It does not. I do some translation work and a lot of multilingual interaction. There is no decent translation technology even for written communication outside technical documents. Even that is only barely decent between European languages. A serious attempt at usable translation of even the simplest texts between Asian languages and others does not yet exist.
Real time translation would multiply the speech recognition problem onto that still-imaginary translation technology.
I will admit there is a lot of hype but there is no substitute for human translators nor for simply learning a new language anywhere on the horizon.
- onion2k 10y agoIt's early days, but the cutting edge stuff works for some limited value of "works". It's just about usable for casual conversations. But that's not the point I was making; what I'm saying is simply that the likelihood of getting working real-time translation on a computer is considerably higher than getting everyone to agree on a universal single language. I can see computer-based real-time translation getting to the point where it's putting translators out of jobs in the next few decades. I can't ever imagine humanity transitioning to a single language, or even a limited scope single language for business. It just won't happen.