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03-10-2005, 10:18 AM
Machines Not Lost in Translation By Ann Harrison
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66816,00.html
02:00 AM Mar. 09, 2005 PT
Faced with daunting translation problems in war and disaster zones around the world, the U.S. military is refining a handheld voice-translation device that will soon be used by police and emergency-room doctors back home.
The palm sized PDA-like Phraselator lets users speak or select from a screen of English phrases and matches them to equivalent pre-recorded phrases in other languages. The device then broadcasts the foreign-language MP3 file and records reply dialog for later translation. Unlike other machine translators, the Phraselator does not require that users train it to recognize their voice, and it produces human rather than synthesized speech.
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Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66816,00.html
02:00 AM Mar. 09, 2005 PT
Faced with daunting translation problems in war and disaster zones around the world, the U.S. military is refining a handheld voice-translation device that will soon be used by police and emergency-room doctors back home.
The palm sized PDA-like Phraselator lets users speak or select from a screen of English phrases and matches them to equivalent pre-recorded phrases in other languages. The device then broadcasts the foreign-language MP3 file and records reply dialog for later translation. Unlike other machine translators, the Phraselator does not require that users train it to recognize their voice, and it produces human rather than synthesized speech.
http://stores.ebay.com/MAKSYM-Variety-Store