Like many people, I use Google Translate as a starting point for translation, but don't necessarily trust that it will get everything right.

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Formal hearings often use interpreters to translate what an asylum seeker says word for word.

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This could translate to both more handset use outside home WiFi sphere and an inclination to experiment with video streaming services.

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And already, in its infancy, Google Glass gives you a way to take first-person HD video unobtrusively, use those Google Maps safely while driving and translate words into Chinese instantly.

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What soldiers say they really could use are small, hands-free devices that translate speech in both directions, as people talk to them.

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At a moment inconvenient to the United States, such access could translate into physical or other obstacles to our use of such waterways.

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Shazam hopes that number (and for our purposes, the 80 million in the US) will translate into a new success: You can now use the app to scan most any TV show any time.

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Now included when the keyboard pops up is an option to use the company's speech-to-text engine, which will (attempt) to translate your words into onscreen text.

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