August 24, 2006
More On-The Fly Language Translation
New software designed for laptops, intended for Army and medical personnel in Iraq, translates English-Arabic audio conversations in near real time. The software, called IraqComm, records spoken words, translates them, and plays the translations. The process takes a few seconds. The predecessor to IraqComm was a handheld device called Phraselator. [via Technology Review]
While IraqComm is currently for military evaluation only, it is also intended for a variety of other users. It shows the potential market for automated language translation tools. It certainly would be nice to have something like this for Skype which, to my knowledge, only has something like ULRTMT, that translates text nearly on the fly.
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