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Conquering Babel.

The article discusses efforts to create computer programs capable of simultaneous translation of spoken languages by the British inventor Will Powell, the Japanese mobile phone company NTT DoCoMo, and the American computer company Microsoft. The difficulties of creating the programs are also touched...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 406; no. 8817; pp. 63 - 65
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 1/5/2013
Materias:
Machine translating
Simultaneous interpreting
Automatic speech recognition
Computer software development
Language digital resources
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Sumario:The article discusses efforts to create computer programs capable of simultaneous translation of spoken languages by the British inventor Will Powell, the Japanese mobile phone company NTT DoCoMo, and the American computer company Microsoft. The difficulties of creating the programs are also touched on.