Comments on: Google Working On Speech Translation for Phones

By: ingilizce çeviri

ingilizce çeviri — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:19:40 +0000

Translation software has come a long way in the last few years so I'm not surprised to hear about this. Between some languages it might actually work reasonably soon.

By: çeviri

çeviri — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:34:32 +0000

Google Translate between English, French, German, Spanish is absolutely amazingly good. The reason why those translations are now very good is because Google has enormous amounts of professionally translated texts from the European Union and the United Nations, where by just adding more and more examples to Google's database, the translations become better and better.

By: Brian_Barker

Brian_Barker — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:09:24 +0000

I agree. Not many fat Americans worry about starving Africans. Probably because of their isolationist attidudes !

I wished however to point out that the solution to the language problem will need a new international language when the power of English "language imperialism" fades. We need to move to non-isolationist, non-national language, rather than Mandarin Chinese. Why then dismiss the potential of Esperanto as in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LPVcsL2k0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LPVcsL2k0

Good luck to Babel Fish, but we need to look long-term as well

By: King George

King George — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:57:41 +0000

“And how many starving Africans can afford a mobile phone !” and how many fat Americans want to talk to starving Africans? (hint: answer is 0), you are the typical idiotic internet loser.

By: Brian_Barker

Brian_Barker — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:42:20 +0000

Google's "Babel Fish" translator will in never solve the language problem. Not only does it discriminate against anyone who cannot afford a mobile phone, but against minority language groups as well.

There are 6,800 languages worldwide, not fifty-two !

Moreover, if I met a native in Borneo, and he said to me in Hakka "I've lost my mobile phone" how would I understand him :)

And how many starving Africans can afford a mobile phone !

As English loses its economic power, the answer is not for us to move to Mandarin Chinese, but to Esperanto which puts all speakers on an equal footing.

Have a look at http://www.lernu.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.lernu.net or http://www.esperanto.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.esperanto.net