To receive an audible translation, users must first pick from one of 14 categories, such as conversation, transport or health, although vocabulary is limited to about 3,000 common words and phrases. Translation software specialists Etaco have...
Natural conversation between man and machine as illustrated in the movie 2001 is still a long way off. The problem is not speech recognition per se but the contextualisation and cognition capacities of machines.
The problem with translation software is it uses up a lot of memory for PDAs, and IBM concedes the ViaVoice Translator is no different. And the Phraselator talking PDA uses speech-recognition software to translate military commands for US troops in...
When devices running the specialised Tablet PC operating system hit the market on November, they'll support English, French, German, Korean, Japanese and both simplified and complex Chinese. Entering a single character in Korean, Chinese or...
Tablet PC's handwriting recogniser also gets new language support for Iberian Spanish, in addition to the already available English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese.
To start with, Travel Interpreter will go from Japanese to text to a translation engine then back to speech in English. As if that isn’t hard enough to do, imagine a fairly average conversation. Remember, this is about interpreting speech, not...