Google goggles with machine translation at Mobile World Congress
This evening at the Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona, Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off a fantastic tourist tool – Google Goggles with Machine Translation.
It’s a system for taking a picture of some text and getting a near instant translation of it. Essentially the user takes a picture of something like a street-sign, restaurant menu [...]
Google translation phone. Pipe dream or possibility?
The general media has gone mad over Google’s announcement that, in a few years, they hope to be-able to translate speech instantly.
This is currently available, though in a limited way (Spoken English to Japanese or Spanish), on the iPhone using a 3rd party app.
I’d expect that if and when Google release such a thing it [...]
Ist Sprache mehr als Worte?
Ist Sprache mehr als Worte?
Greg Rosner
Wie liest sich das?
Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010, 18:15 Uhr. Ich schreibe diesen Blogeintrag in Deutsch, aber Sie lesen ihn in Englisch. Nun ja, hoffentlich größtenteils in Englisch. Versuchsweise habe ich meinen deutschen Blogeintrag von Googles Übersetzungstool in Englisch [...]
Search the Web in 51 Different Languages
Google yesterday added a new feature to their search results, allowing users to instantly translate their search results.
By selecting show options and translated results, Google will automatically detect the language and translate the results accordingly. They’ll even select the most appropriate language for your search query, translate your English search and display translated results from [...]
Business Innovation
I always find it interesting when businesses think innovatively, adapting their business models to provide better services for their customers. Sometimes these innovations radically change previous perceptions, I think that two of the current mainstream radical innovations are iTunes and Sky+.
iTunes
iTunes came to market a few years ago and turned the traditional music consumer market on [...]
See what I’m saying? Glasses that ‘translate’ for you
Ever known someone who could understand you better once they put their glasses on?
Well, thanks to a new invention, doing just that might allow one person to understand another person speaking in a different language – in the not too distant future.
NEC last week unveiled their ‘Tele Scouter‘, a pair of glasses that ‘hears’ what [...]
A sad day indeed as spammers go multilingual…
Diluted viagra?! Spammers have been using machine translation to convert their campaigns into major Eurpoean languages – to presumably little effect and great annoyance to their new found customers (victims).
La Tribune in English (sort of)
Leading French newspaper La Tribune have launched English, Italian, German and Spanish versions of their website. The only downside is that they have used machine translation.
While machine translation is great for smaller businesses and hobby sites to help their users get the gist of a site, it is not what you would expect from such [...]
