"We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years' time," said Franz Och, Google's head of translation services.

“我们认为对话翻译是可能的并且在未来几年会做的相当好，”Franz Och说，他是Google翻译部门的负责人。

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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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Ask Franz Josef Och the same question, though, and he says that even with a machine a thousand times more powerful than today's his program wouldn't run significantly better than it does right now, as far as most people could tell.

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