Translation: how do you make (serious) money here?

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This is a guest post by Nataly Kelly, Chief Research Officer at the Boston-based research firm Common Sense Advisory and author of Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World (Penguin).

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At the same time, these translation glasses show how rapidly we are advancing toward an actual universal translator.

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How do the facts of translation relate to language in general?

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Still, no matter how charming the dialogue, the shakiness of the translation can break immersion from time to time.

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Unfortunately, specific details on the how the technology works--or how far along it is--were somewhat lost in translation.

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The amazing thing about this setup is how this relatively simple prototype accomplishes such rapid speech recognition and translation at close to a conversational pace.

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Wycliffe is facing controversy in the field of Bible translation itself, and in April they may face consequences over how they translate the Bible.

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Historically, hardware divisions have been slow to recognise that this is not actually how customers buy products, and locked-down systems are slow to take advantage of the translation layer provided by smartphone and tablet apps.

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Here's how Franz Och, a distinguished research scientist at Google, sees the present state and future of machine translation online.

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