Or you can always use babel fish but it is a bit ticklish
In-Ear Device That Translates Foreign Languages in Real Time
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#12Just wondering if this is anything more than a in-ear bluetooth headset connected to an app that uses google translate as its backend? Because if yes, they would maybe have more success selling the app that you can use with the headphones you already own already and so making the user acquisition a bit smoother than buying a bluetooth headset...I guess more people would give less money for an app that gets updated th…
hope not the requirement for being online all the time is quite taxing especially if you use this abroad
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#13"Do you want... do you want to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?"
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#14How good are cell phone microphones? Could I hack up a similar device with my regular headset plugged into my phone and the phone picking up the speech and translating it and reading it back to me (Google Translate)? So basically phone/app doing all the work and using whatever headphone is available.
I suppose the hard parts are identifying what originates from a person and the actual speech to text and back?
So far it seems like it could be build from existing blocks. Doesn't have to be great and can gradually improve...a worthy hack around project imo
I haven't checked in on CMU's Sphinx in a while but that was a speech-speech system I looked at for a bit. What are the state of the art building blocks for such a project? Would I want speech-text-speech (I assume this is easier?) or directly speech-speech?
Edit: This list seems useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speech_recognition_sof...
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could they trademark (it wouldn't be copyright) a term that they themselves copied from a work of fiction they don't own the copyright to, given that the context (i.e. what it does) isn't different to that in the work of fiction?
Yes - and yes, trademark, not copyright, pre-coffee conflation. Consider the Nexus line of phones, lifted directly from PKD's Do Androids Dream . Copyright is about area of applicability - I bet babelfish is trademarked for "translation services and products".
This is like as if I’d trademark "Quidditch" for a sports league where a sport is played with brooms, flying around, etc.
That shouldn’t be possible, and hopefully any court would laugh at whoever claims to have a trademark on Babelfish.
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#16"Do you want... do you want to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?"
My hovercraft is full of eels.
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#17I remember reading an "interactive" book as a kid (a book with numbered short episodes, and at the end of each one you are presented with a couple of choices how the story would continue, it was awesome) where the good guy was sent back in time by the bad guy to the wild west where he had to convince the indians to trust him and fight with him against the same bad guy, who liked to slaughter them for fun, or die with them. In order to understand the natives, he had some gadget implanted in his brain that translated their language directly into his own. I remember thinking "yeah right, never gonna happen." :)
This is probably far away from being able to translate languages perfectly, but still. The future came pretty fast.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes - and yes, trademark, not copyright, pre-coffee conflation. Consider the Nexus line of phones, lifted directly from PKD's Do Androids Dream . Copyright is about area of applicability - I bet babelfish is trademarked for "translation services and products".
This is like as if I’d trademark "Quidditch" for a sports league where a sport is played with brooms, flying around, etc. That shouldn’t be possible, and hopefully any court would laugh at whoever claims to have a trademark on Babelfish.
Oddly, while I can find three trademarks, Yahoo isn't one of the holders.
https://trademarks.justia.com/785/15/babelfish-78515910.html
https://trademarks.justia.com/772/49/babelfish-77249656.html
https://trademarks.justia.com/851/07/babel-fish-85107190.htm...
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#19I'd like to see more audio augmented reality systems. Translation, taking baby cry down a notch, amplifying speech directed at you, autofiguring out best moment to tell you things you might need to know.
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#20I'd like to see more audio augmented reality systems. Translation, taking baby cry down a notch, amplifying speech directed at you, autofiguring out best moment to tell you things you might need to know.
> taking baby cry down a notch
This could end badly. I think the whole purpose of babies crying is to ensure you do something about it.
Not that there's always a solution, but I'd rather be awoken by a loud, irritating cry frequently than not hear them when they might need me.