Remember when Google Hangouts was named Babel? It turns out, Babel is actually something completely different now – a Google based universal language translation service of sorts. Android VP Hugo Barra spoke to The UK Times, explaining that Google is trying to create a translator that works so that when you speak into your phone’s microphone in one language, it can automatically translate into another language to the person on the other end of a coll. It’s genius, complicated, and like something you see in the movies.
Barra says that the project is still in its early stages, and the biggest issue seems to be background noise that is affecting audio input for translation. Without background noise, real time translation accuracy is reportedly 100%.
Source: Slash Gear
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