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neilmac
neilmac
Hiszpania
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Dragon's den Jun 28, 2012

I'd just be content if I could get my speech recog SW to recognise the difference between "or" and "are" in my accent...
 
DLyons
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Irlandia
Local time: 08:16
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Dragon's den Jun 28, 2012

neilmac wrote:

I'd just be content if I could get my speech recog SW to recognise the difference between "or" and "are" in my accent...


Just try an Irish one

But I do think that Translation has less than a generation left (except for a small niche of insured practitioners who take professional responsibility for key Legal and Medical documents).

As for Interpreters, most of the work is 'gist only' and that's a red flag.
 
Gennady Lapardin
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Rosja
Local time: 10:16
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Female faces Jun 28, 2012

Sometimes it happens that when I pick up a photo of one of my daughters, I ask who it is? Dad! It's me! Shame on you!

 
david young
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Francja
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Dragon's den Jun 29, 2012

"But I do think that Translation has less than a generation left (except for a small niche of insured practitioners who take professional responsibility for key Legal and Medical documents). "

I wholly agree that translation will soon be mastered by machines, and when you think that translation is among the most difficult tasks for machines to master... We'd better start being nice to machines

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"But I do think that Translation has less than a generation left (except for a small niche of insured practitioners who take professional responsibility for key Legal and Medical documents). "

I wholly agree that translation will soon be mastered by machines, and when you think that translation is among the most difficult tasks for machines to master... We'd better start being nice to machines

[Edited at 2012-06-29 15:40 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 
DLyons
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Irlandia
Local time: 08:16
hiszpański > angielski
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Dragon's den Jun 30, 2012

david young wrote:
I wholly agree that translation will soon be mastered by machines, and when you think that translation is among the most difficult tasks for machines to master... We'd better start being nice to machines

[Edited at 2012-06-29 15:40 GMT]


But no mere human will be able to pass their Igrunt (inverse Turing) test
 
Mark
Mark
Local time: 09:16
włoski > angielski
Machine translation Jul 11, 2012

I’m rather taken aback by these predictions of the imminent mastery of translation by machines. I’m not convinced that humans have, so expecting computers to sort it out seems rather Utopian.

Decades ago people were worried about not knowing what to do with all the leisure time that technology would inevitably provide. Is it just my imagination or are pension ages rising across Europe?
 


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