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Enabling Cross-Lingual Conversations in Real Time

• smoyer 12y ago
  Related discussion from TechNet announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7808505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7808505
• jacquesm 12y ago
  "Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
• DennisAleynikov 12y ago
  At a hackathon back in April (which was sponsored in part by Microsoft), some friends and I made a very similar working version [1] relying on Google's line of products and the results were astonishingly good. Alas, it only works on Chrome due to the speech api used is the built in chrome one. It seems that Microsoft did something very similar to our implementation, by simply daisy chaining existing language processing tools they had to make this addition to Skype. [1] http://goo.gl/3wC6b7 http://goo.gl/3wC6b7
• zdean 12y ago
  From the demo, that doesn't feel like real time to me. I was more impressed years ago by Google Wave's realtime translation via text far more than this because it enabled what felt like 'normal' speed conversation (albeit via text)...whereas this felt like you were conversing through a translator (which doesn't feel like conversation at all). I may be missing the technical achievement here, but in terms of end result, it feels very underwhelming. Demo: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/05/27/microsoft-demos-breakthrough-in-real-time-translated-conversations.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/05/27...