Friday, March 05, 2004

It's Robo Translator
Major Breakthrough Department: NEC has just launched the first successful speech-to-speech translation robot called Papero. Developed as a new high-tech visiting tourist feature in Tokyo's Narita airport, the little robot can instantly decipher a sentence in English or Japanese and then translate it on the fly. Better still, the robot is the first of its kind to handle over 50,000 Japanese and 25,000 English words, including slang and colloquialisms, all spoken naturally by the user without any prior voice training and identification process.

The technology is expected to hit PDAs soon, and will hopefully end the brutal agony of sneering French waiters as you accidentally order squid eyes from the menu.
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