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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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Published in:Economist Vol. 406; no. 8817; pp. 63 - 65
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 1/5/2013
Subjects:
Machine translating
Simultaneous interpreting
Automatic speech recognition
Computer software development
Language digital resources
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