In the excellent computer news dept: "This year the military's Joint Forces Command has been testing laptops with such software in Iraq. When someone speaks into a microphone attached to the computer, the machine translates it into Arabic and reads that translation aloud over the PC's speakers. The software then translates the Arabic speaker's response and utters it in English."
... "MASTOR's accuracy is not perfect, but "you can communicate a concept and you can elicit a response from someone" -- a huge improvement for U.S. troops who rarely have an Arabic linguist on hand, said David Nahamoo, chief of language technologies at IBM Research." ... "He expects it could be 2009 before real-time translation computers end up supporting the military in raids or other difficult scenarios." http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/10/12/translation.software.ap/index.html Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
