Traffic that grinds to a halt and then restarts for no apparent reason is one of the biggest causes of frustration for drivers. Now a team of Japanese researchers has recreated the phenomenon on a test-track for the first time.
Microsoft has developed a translating-phone that combines speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech technology allowing two people of different languages to carry on a phone conversation. Check out the video, it shows a lot of promise.
I asked a few questions in English, while Seide answered in German. As one can see from the video below, it’s far from perfect, but even being able to get the gist of what someone is saying without sharing a common language is pretty cool.