Not perfect, perhaps, but perfectly comprehensible. And the application will even do a very decent job of text to speech for you.
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The quality of the translation for these kinds of applications has rapidly improved in recent years
Not that the ability of MT to deal with long/discontinuous dependencies or morphology impresses me. And not that this is gonna significantly change without actual natural language understanding (read: major advances in AI) – this is not only my opinion.
/But/ I'd argue that the distance of the information content of such low-quality translations to the information content conveyed by correct and polished language is often tolerable. Grammar isn't that important for getting one's point across.
Images such as those shown on the linked webpage don't convey any subtlety. This is a different problem from the morphology or syntax being broken in a present-day, "state of the art" :-) MT rendition. But I don't see how such images would constitute an improvement, as far as information transmission is concerned.
Stephan
