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Tuesday, November 12, 2002
UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR.
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Hey, this has been bugging me for a long time.
We have the following four things already:
1) Voice recognition software that converts speech to text.
2) Translation software that translates from English to almost any language or vice-versa.
3) Speech software that converts text to speech.
4) Small hand-held computers that can run all those programs.
So, hey, let's put all those things together, and create a hand-held device that I can talk into in English, and which will translate what I just said into another language, and which I then can have someone else talk into in their language, and hear what they just said in English. I'm sure that I would pay $10,000.00 for a device that could do all that. But there isn't any reason why it should cost more than a couple hundred, and even less than that if millions of us started buying them. Somebody just needs to put all the pieces together.
This is the "killer app" of the 21st century, and the last piece of the globalization puzzle. This would completely change the world, and I just can't understand what the hold-up is on this.
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