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Trudeau speech gets lost in translation at the White House
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Jeff Whittaker
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Mar 19, 2016

ABC News attempt to translate the Prime Minister of Canada’s remarks in French produce some wacky results.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/03/18/trudeau-speech-gets-lost-in-translation-at-whitehouse-to-gibberish.html

[Edited at 2016-03-19 22:26 GMT]
 
Philippe Etienne
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Hilarious! Mar 19, 2016

So if I understood well, the speech is first deciphered by speech recognition "technology", then translated on-the-fly by machine translation "technology", but the rubbish that came out of it is due to wrong settings only.

"Technology" is not at stake then. Phew. I feel better.

Philippe
 
Tom in London
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Hmmm Mar 19, 2016

What is "the White House to gibberish", or is that just gibberish?

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Jeff Whittaker
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Lost to gibberish at the White House Mar 19, 2016

Missing comma perhaps:

Trudeau speech gets lost in translation, at the White House, to gibberish.

Perhaps it's an idiom like "lost to obscurity" or "lost to the ages"...?

It would be better to eliminate the trite "lost in translation" and just use "speech at the White House lost to gibberish"

Tom in London wrote:

What is "the White House to gibberish", or is that just gibberish?

[Edited at 2016-03-19 22:18 GMT]


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