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11-10-2012, 12:31 PM
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Quote:In the final few minutes of that presentation the words of Mr Rashid were almost instantly turned into Chinese by piping the spoken English through Microsoft's translation system. In addition, the machine-generated version of his words maintained some of his spoken style.


Pretty cool...
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11-11-2012, 12:41 PM
holy crap... I need to get this.
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11-11-2012, 12:55 PM
OrsunVZ Wrote:holy crap... I need to get this.
Yea, I can just see this being a standard installation in all phones and VOIP (Like skype) in the future... how far in the future, who knows.

What will be really cool is when they get like in one of the Mission Impossible movies(although, I think that just made you sound like someone else) where it real time translated YOUR VOICE to whatever language you were wanting it to.
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