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Google to bring about the apocalypse with a phone and a fish ?
The boys and girls at Google apparently have some idea how the future should look. Remember those times before the big tower thingy they attempted to build in Babylon… Single language entire humanity and all…
No clue ? Well read a book or the Bible to be exact, but I will save you the time here -Tower of Babel.
Money quote – Wikipedia
According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, participated in the building. The people decided their city should have a tower so immense that it would have "its top in the heavens’
While i like the idea apparently the commander and chief of Heaven did not and some smiting took place. Go figure.
Ok back to modern times apparently Google is working on a phone that can bring the good old days aka. translate everything. No question about it, this thing sounds cool i mean i literally.
Money quote – Gizmodo via the The Times a dude named ‘Franz Och’ who apparently is mister ‘Big Fish’ or should i say ‘Babel Fish’ in Google’s translation division.
"We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time.
Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that’s what we’re working on.
If you look at the progress in machine translation and corresponding advances in voice recognition, there has been huge progress recently."
Very Good idea mister Och lets just hope that the roll out date is not somewhere in winter 2012….
Petar D