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The problem of providing a realtime voice translator is packing enough power into a portable device to do the job. Why not use the a cellphone to communicate directly to a mainframe which does the actual translation. What I would like to see someone make is a cellphone with 2 blue tooth headsets which
links via VoIP to a mainframe that does the actual translation service. Alternatively why not just make use of the low cost of labour in 3rd world countries. Teach people the languages you need to translate (yes it would take a while) call them on your cellphone and get them to translate.
BAKED!
http://www.universal-translator.net/
This was the 3rd link down after a Google search on your title. [21 Quest, Dec 10 2006]
BAKED AGAIN!
http://connect.educ...327?time=1165793589
This was the bottom link on the first page when I Google-searched "Voice Translator Service" [21 Quest, Dec 10 2006]
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Try a Google Search. Seriously, go to www.google.com. copy and paste your title ("Voice Translator") into the search bar and and press "Enter" on your keyboard. |
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Yours is much more complex, probably more expensive (2 Bluetooth headsets!?) and requires a cell phone signal. And if you're travelling abroad you better hope you have a quad-band phone, which won't even work in Japan at all since they have an all 3G network, which most phones (in the U.S. at least) don't support. |
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[21 Quest], that device is amazing. I wonder if they're any good. The first link you found may not be realtime / simultaneous, though - it may require someone to carefully speak into the gizmoid. The second uses a human translator. |
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I dunno how well it works, but it better work pretty damn well for 500 bucks. |
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"Realtime" translation is called interpreting. |
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//have an all 3G network, which most phones (in the U.S. at least) don't support.// |
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However, all phones sold in Europe are now 3G. Then again, doesen't the US still have analogue phones, which were phased out in the rest of the world long ago. |
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Yeah, we do have analogue phones still, but not many companies still offer them. The analogue phones you see in use these days are mostly owned by people who bought them when they were still popular and are too atached to the phone they've had for so long to upgrade. |
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The problem with phasing them out is one which has been encountered by Cingular Wireless (or was it Sprint?). Cingular updated their network so it will not support analogue phones anymore, forcing their customers to upgrade (and pay for the upgrade) or cancel their service and pay an Early Termination Fee. This was found to be a breach of contract on the carrier's part, and they're now facing a class-action lawsuit. |
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So if a carrier wants to phase out analogue phones legally, they have to pay for all the upgraded phones they're going to have to give their analogue customers. |
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