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> there might be a bit of friction there, but there's nothing that this approach doesn't get them that this product would There absolutely is. I'm fluent in En
by euyyn 9y ago
> there might be a bit of friction there, but there's nothing that this approach doesn't get them that this product would
There absolutely is. I'm fluent in English, and in a visit to Japan a couple months ago I found myself in a restaurant with a waiter that didn't speak English, and an issue with my credit card that she couldn't explain to me. After several attempts at communicating in other ways, I just opened Google Translate on the phone and we were able to have a spoken conversation much like the one you saw in the presentation.
- GuiA 9y agoGenuinely curious then: are you interested by this product? What would it let you do that your phone doesn't let you do? Do you feel like the interaction would have been better if mediated by audio only earbuds instead of a phone with a display?
- kibwen 9y agoWhile on vacation in New Orleans I became friends with two Brazilians staying at my hostel. Only one of them is confident in their English, the other speaks it haltingly, and I speak no Portuguese. They've invited me to come spend time with them next year, which is little time for me to become a fluent speaker. Something like this looks like it might allow me a much greater chance of understanding and being understood by all of their friends.
- euyyn 9y agoThe demo shown included using both the earbuds and the phone, so the display would still be there.
- Grue3 9y agoExcept Google's Japanese to English translation is horrifically inaccurate and likely to mislead you by orders of magnitude [1] [1] https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/11%E4%B8%87500%E5%86%86 https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/11%E4%B8%87500%E5%86%86
- euyyn 9y agoI guess I was very lucky then. But I was definitely better off than without Google Translate.