Google is once again thinking towards the future with plans for mobile phone translation software that will be integrated in to the next generation of the popular gadgets.
Reports show that the internet giant is working on mobile translation software that will bring people from separate sides of the world together allowing them to talk in real time, even if they are not able to speak a common language.
If Google is able to come up with a way to overcome the results of mechanical translations and place live translation into mobile phones than they just may be capable of creating a super phone.
At the moment the software is still in a conceptual phase but given how many big steps Google has already made forward, such as online text to text translation, it may not be as long as most people thought to see the actual technology make it onto the new wave of smartphones.
Head of Google’s translation services, Franz Och, stated that speech to speech translation is possible in theory and will be brought to life in just a few years. He went on to explain that even though everyone has a different pitch, voice, and accent, the software will work because the recognition system will be personalized to the user allowing the mobile software to get familiar with your voice from past queries.
Google will need to get hard at work on the project however as a company named Sakhr announced in June of 2009 that it is working on an Arabic natural language processing system.
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