Language barriers would soon be broken for travelers

Good news for travelers is that they would be able to overcome the linguistic barriers more easily thanks to Google that is developing a smart phone software technology. This software is able to translate several foreign languages very accurately. In addition, the new devise would be capable to convert speech into another foreign language almost instantly.

This new breakthrough technology from the search giant would reportedly get rid of the accent and pitch problems that have been a barrier to all the existing translation services introduced till date.

While early iterations of the Google’s translation services have been somewhat incomprehensible at times, the company’s ever-soaring database of languages has in fact paved the way for high degree of accuracy in translation tools.

As of now, Google’s database includes as many as 52 of the estimated 6,000 languages known across the globe, with most recent addition to the list being Haitian Creole.

However, Google remarked that translating speech would be a more difficult job, but asserted that the smartphone would adjust by learning the user’s speaking style.

Unwrapping details about the company’s initiative, Franz Och, Google’s chief of translation services, said: “We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years' time. Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that's what we're working on”.

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