An item in Kwintissential's "Cross Cultural News" mentions a new product as "the cutting edge of a raft of breakthrough developments in translation technology coming down the pipeline" (the story is appended with URL below). That could mean a lot of things but I'm wondering if anyone has more to say on what's on this "raft." Especially if there is any summary article on what to look for in MT in the next couple of years. TIA...
Don Osborn Bisharat.net PanAfrican Localisation Project http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/crossculturalnews/ Monday, March 06, 2006 German engineers design new translation tool A team of engineers at Germany's Karlsruhe University has developed a heldheld device called the Sign Translator. It uses an integrated camera and software that recognizes, and translates into English, about 3,000 Chinese characters. The Sign Translator is the cutting edge of a raft of breakthrough developments in translation technology coming down the pipeline. Governments in Europe, rather than corporations, are driving much of the innovation?and with good reason. Consider the European Union: in Brussels, the world's largest translation and interpretation operation spends more than $875 million a year ferrying information in and out of the bloc's 21 official languages. _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
