Metaglossia: The Translation World

A lo largo de los años, y las campañas de marketing, han sido varios los productos tecnológicos que han causado revuelo por un mal uso del idioma en mercados extranjeros.

Presbyterian Healthcare is looking to ease the language barrier for patients.

Presbyterian Healthcare is looking to ease the language barrier for patients.
The Charlotte health-care system has expanded its language-interpretation services to include video-conferencing through an agreement with the Language Resource Center.

Search giant Google may finally unveil long-rumored new features for its music service on November 16, tech sites reported over the weekend.

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One idea that fascinated me with Dragon Naturally Speaking is the potential for using the software to transcribe dictated messages on recording devices. I have often been interested in possibilities for translation away from the computer. In fact, the possibility of translating my by dictation is one that has a long history and which is of great personal interest to me, because I think that it may be possible to achieve a very different flow and quality from that which is typically achieved when writing on a computer. So, while visiting a friend, I purchased an inexpensive Olympus recording device for about €50, then I trained DNS to use it and began my experiment.
The text above is my first attempt at transcribing from a small, portable recording device to Dragon Naturally Speaking. One small correction (marked). My expectations were not high when I decided to try this. The microphone in my headset is of rather modest quality, and the errors, as noted in my last post, can be devilish.

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ApSIC Xbench, a tool for terminology and QA (ppt)

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The voice-activated Siri assistant on Apple's iPhone 4S is a direct challenge to Google's search engine, chairman Eric Schmidt said.
"Apple has launched an entirely new approach to search technology with Siri, its voice-activated search and task-completion service built into the iPhone 4S," Schmidt acknowledged in a written response to lawmakers released Friday by the Senate antitrust subcommittee.

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NTT Docomo Inc. will provide a two-way, speech translation service between Japanese and English, and Japanese and Korean, for cell phone users on a trial basis starting Wednesday.

Translated spoken words or sentences will be sent to the phone user two seconds after the firm's voice recognition system registers the speaker's voice, the company announced Friday.

It will be the first automated conversation translation service in the world available on a standard cell phone.