This just brings you into the uncanny valley of NLP. To say that this is almost as good as native fluency is like saying that current CG animation is almost pho

This just brings you into the uncanny valley of NLP. To say that this is almost as good as native fluency is like saying that current CG animation is almost photo-realistic. Like so many things in technology, closing the gap of the last percent turns out to be as hard as the first 99 put together. The need for phrasebook-level fluency in another language may be diminished soon by technologies like these though.