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Microsoft’s Translating Telephone

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.