>> Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages. The technology is there to build this kind of device, I agree not 100% ac

>> Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages. The technology is there to build this kind of device, I agree not 100% accurate but still practical enough to be used in real life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IraqComm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IraqComm >> Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words This too, the technology is there to build a device. I would say we've much more powerful devices in form of smart phones than just doing 1 or 2 things. The talko app on iPhone is actually much more than just speech to text converter. http://www.talko.com/ http://www.talko.com/ I would also like to say that Singularity predictions doesn't employ that the technology will be so mainstream that every person will be using that. But even if we can build a technology in some lab, it still becomes an event on Singularity timetable. I've yet to see any off the mark prediction from Singularity timeline.