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Microsoft Universal Translator: Star Trek Gets Real
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Anyone who’s used Google Translate on a mobile device on the go has realized how close we are to getting a universal translator. While Google Translate isn’t always accurate, it does the job well enough for you to be able to get the gist of another language that you don’t… |
March 13th, 2012
Vocre App Makes the Universal Translator Get Closer to Reality
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One of the things that breaks my immersion when watching sci-fi shows is when everyone speaks the same language, from people of different nationalities to aliens (not to mention the dog and pig people in Dragonball)…. But many sci-fi franchises also address this real world convenience with a fictional |
September 15th, 2011
Scientists Working on Dolphin Translation Machine
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This sounds like something out of a science fiction TV show or movie, and in fact, it is. I used to really like SeaQuest DSV… where they had a dolphin with a translator thing on its back that allowed it to talk to people. Some researchers are working on a |
May 10th, 2011
Tele Scouter Translator Will Literally Let You See What Someone is Saying
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NEC aims to overcome language barriers with the Tele Scouter, a system that will process spoken language and display a translation on a retinal display. To maintain the portability of the gadget, NEC split the Tele Scouter into three parts: an eyepiece, a small computer and a remote server. Aside… |
November 2nd, 2009
Trinvo Talking Translator: Say “I Can’t Understand You” in 12 Languages
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We’ve already featured a talking translator before, but it looked intimidating and/or boring. Not the Trinvo. It’s a hip and handy talking translator equipped with the very original “navigational wheel.” Wherever you go, people will surely want to talk to you if only to ask what that gadget is that… |
July 30th, 2009
Bowlingual Voice: Dog Translator 2.0 Teaches Fido to Speak. Speak!
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Remember the BowLingual? Released in the early 2000′s, the device claimed that it could translate your dog’s barks into phrases and emotions that told you what your dog was thinking, or how it was feeling. Now the BowLingual has gotten a 2009 upgrade, which actually gives your dog a human… |
June 20th, 2009
Franklin International Translator Speaks 12 Languages
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If you travel a lot, you might want to check out the newly announced Franklin TGA-490 language translator that can actually speak in 12 different languages. The new portable translator not only translates over 450,000 words and 12,000 phrases, it contains recorded samples of speech to provide accurate pronunciation in… |
January 8th, 2007
