Killer App: Speech-to-Speech Translator Developed For iPhone
One Hundred Thousand iPhone Apps with two months to go for 2009!
language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an
iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that
converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa.
Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the
iPhone will respond with an audible translation. 'Jibbigo's software
runs on the iPhone itself, so it doesn't need to be connected to the
Web to access a distant server,' says Waibel.
Waibel is a leader in speech-to-speech translation and multimodal
speech interfaces, creating the first real-time, speech-to-speech
translator for English, German and Japanese. 'Automated speech
translation is an expensive proposition that has been supported
primarily by large government grants,' says Waibel.
'But our sponsors are impatient to see this technology become more
widely available and we, as researchers, are eager to find new
revenues that will help us extend this technology to more of the 6,000
languages now spoken worldwide.'"
Dang do you realize iPhone users still are getting all the neat stuff?
Try Verizon's Android and you may feel hurt that none of this is for
you. ;>)
News
> "Dr. Dobbs reports that Alex Waibel, professor of computer science and
> language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an
> iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that
> converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa.
Great for asking your local bodega owner for a refill on your Slurpee,
or for telling a leaf blower wielding yard guy to STFU. Just shove your
talking iToy in his face and see what happens.
George Kerby
On 10/30/09 8:02 AM, in article
rKednZVViJd8fnfX...@speakeasy.net, "News" <Ne...@Group.Name>
wrote:
You're a kinda "glass half-EMPTY" kind of guy, aren't you?
Go back to bed and get up on the other side, already!
DevilsPGD
If you're planning on being an asshole, you don't need a device to
translate for you, most assholes can get their message right through a
language barrier.
Being able to supplement weak knowledge of a foreign language while
traveling in a foreign country would be extremely useful.
I wonder if they support English <--> Texan?
Your Name
"One Hundred Thousand iPhone Apps with two months to go for 2009!"
news:e397df48-6cd0-497e...@w19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com...
> "Dr. Dobbs reports that Alex Waibel, professor of computer science and
> language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an
> iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that
> converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa.
>
> Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the
> iPhone will respond with an audible translation. 'Jibbigo's software
> runs on the iPhone itself, so it doesn't need to be connected to the
> Web to access a distant server,' says Waibel.
"Audible", yes. Understandable, maybe not so much. Fluent, never.
Language translation is extremely difficult for a machine to do
successfully. Literal translations rarely work very well, although are
usually at least somewhat understandable.
Your Name
"George Kerby" <ghost_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:C710574D.37813%ghost_...@hotmail.com...
But only if there's a solid brick wall on that side. ;-)
Todd Allcock
"One Hundred Thousand iPhone Apps with two months to go for 2009!"
Impressive. There's a similar app for Windows Mobile that will be released
November 8th...
...2001.
http://www.ectaco.com/news/2546
The iPhone app is pretty impressive, with a vocabulary of about 40,000
words, but it essentially sounds like any other electronic phrase
translator, but improved- you speak a phrase, (or in this case a sentence or
two) the phone selects the closest match and gives the result. Like
Ectaco's Windows Mobile app, it's primarily a phrase book for international
travelers:
"The Jibbigo app, which works on the iPhone 3GS, has a vocabulary of roughly
40,000 words. It is a general translator, though it is particularly attuned
to the needs of international travelers and medical doctors. Users simply
speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the phone will respond
with an audible translation."
Larry
news:f13me5p3bd9nsgke9...@4ax.com:
> I wonder if they support English <--> Texan?
>
>
I wonder if the Spanish translations are like these....(c;]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fda4_wo6JI
Apple has been known to make some hilarious jokes. Look at the prices!
--
Larry
Larry
> "Audible", yes. Understandable, maybe not so much. Fluent, never.
>
> Language translation is extremely difficult for a machine to do
> successfully. Literal translations rarely work very well, although are
> usually at least somewhat understandable.
>
>
Here's what this looks like when the BIG GOOGLE computer translates it:
""Audible", s�. Comprensible, quiz� no tanto. Fluent, nunca.
De traducci�n de idiomas es extremadamente dif�cil para una m�quina de
hacer con �xito. Traducciones literales rara vez funcionan muy bien, aunque
se por lo general por lo menos algo comprensible."
It will be amusing to compare what shit comes out of a little iPhone if you
read the English text of your post into it and see how it agrees with the
big Google mainframe's translation.
Any Spanish readers care to rate Google's translation for us? How did they
do on this text?
--
Larry
Larry
news:I3LGm.733$Cc6...@newsfe07.iad:
> Impressive. There's a similar app for Windows Mobile that will be
> released November 8th...
>
> ...2001.
>
> http://www.ectaco.com/news/2546
>
> The iPhone app is pretty impressive, with a vocabulary of about 40,000
> words, but it essentially sounds like any other electronic phrase
> translator, but improved- you speak a phrase, (or in this case a
> sentence or two) the phone selects the closest match and gives the
> result. Like Ectaco's Windows Mobile app, it's primarily a phrase
> book for international travelers:
> "The Jibbigo app, which works on the iPhone 3GS, has a vocabulary of
> roughly 40,000 words. It is a general translator, though it is
> particularly attuned to the needs of international travelers and
> medical doctors. Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into
> the iPhone and the phone will respond with an audible translation."
>
>
>
Google:
"Impresionante. Hay una aplicaci�n similar para Windows Mobile que se
dar� a conocer 8 de noviembre ...
... De 2001.
http://www.ectaco.com/news/2546
La aplicaci�n para el iPhone es bastante impresionante, con un
vocabulario de cerca de 40.000 las palabras, sino que, esencialmente,
los sonidos electr�nicos, como cualquier otra frase traductor, pero la
mejora de una frase que usted habla, (o en este caso una frase o dos),
el tel�fono selecciona la coincidencia m�s cercana y le da el resultado.
Gustar Ectaco de aplicaci�n de Windows Mobile, es ante todo un libro de
frases para los internacionales los viajeros: "La aplicaci�n Jibbigo,
que trabaja en la 3GS iPhone, tiene un vocabulario de alrededor de
40.000 palabras. Se trata de un traductor en general, aunque es muy
habilidosa a las necesidades de los viajeros internacionales y los
m�dicos. Los usuarios simplemente hablar una o dos frases a la vez en el
iPhone y el tel�fono responder� con una traducci�n audible. "
What'd iPhone say??
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Larry
Ha ha.....Tell Google to translate "kiss my ass" to spanish...
Try it.
Your Name
"Larry" <no...@home.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9CB4D643DEF...@74.209.131.13...
>
> I wonder if the Spanish translations are like these....(c;]
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fda4_wo6JI
>
> Apple has been known to make some hilarious jokes. Look at the prices!
Nowhere near as big a joke as your parents made.
Your Name
>
> Here's what this looks like when the BIG GOOGLE computer translates it:
>
> ""Audible", s�. Comprensible, quiz� no tanto. Fluent, nunca.
>
> De traducci�n de idiomas es extremadamente dif�cil para una m�quina de
> hacer con �xito. Traducciones literales rara vez funcionan muy bien,
aunque
> se por lo general por lo menos algo comprensible."
>
> It will be amusing to compare what shit comes out of a little iPhone if
you
> read the English text of your post into it and see how it agrees with the
> big Google mainframe's translation.
>
> Any Spanish readers care to rate Google's translation for us? How did
they
> do on this text?
>
> http://translate.google.com/#
Numbskull Loser Larry proves his know-absolutely-nothing status yet again.
Everyone knows your employer Google has a hopeless translation system that's
only good for extremely rough outline of what was really typed in. :-\
heron stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ealQk1lX4yw&feature=youtube_gdata
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to be commanded, http://gendo.net
must be obeyed. mailto:her...@gendo.net
News
And did you get a same day translation?
Why does the Android browser stop working during a phone call, I thought this was a multitasking phone?
>
> I wonder if they support English <--> Texan?
ROTFL
That was funny!
How about EBONICS so you can understand the next street mugger?
Larry
@news-40.giganews.com:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ealQk1lX4yw&feature=youtube_gdata
Works great on 10 words that almost sound like CANNED RESPONSE.
Let's try it on my examples and see what it does. We're not going to a
restaurant it knows.
--
Larry
Larry
> Everyone knows your employer Google
Man, don't I wish! I'd be happy just to be an early stockholder!
--
Larry
Larry
SdncVFv9u5tXHXn...@speakeasy.net:
> And did you get a same day translation?
>
>
Huh? It took 2 seconds...
...oh, but I have broadband, not ATT EDGE in the white zones:
http://phones.verizonwireless.com/3g/imgs/attmap.jpg
--
Larry
News
Huh? It's alleged to be onboard processing, not cloud...
News
Waffle, waffle, waffle, waffle, waffle..........
tlvp
> Ha ha.....Tell Google to translate "kiss my ass" to spanish...
> Try it.
Not Google, and not just to Spanish, but then to French and thence back to English:
"embrace my mule" :-) .
Cheers, -- tlvp
--
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP
Larry
news:SdydnXqgdYbIBHHX...@speakeasy.net:
I don't see how an iPhone could store the huge library of SPOKEN words
necessary in TWO languages in its tiny memory. Not possible.
Your voice is encoded and sent to the BIG server with a serious computer in
it....then the big server sends your little iPhone the audio data to speak
it back to you in the other language.
Translation is a massive fuzzy logic monster that's not going to happen in
some tiny processor with no memory to speak of....especially if it talks to
you.
--
Larry
nospam
<no...@home.com> wrote:
> I don't see how an iPhone could store the huge library of SPOKEN words
> necessary in TWO languages in its tiny memory. Not possible.
the app is 158 megabytes. current iphones are 16 or 32 gigabytes. do
the math.
> Your voice is encoded and sent to the BIG server with a serious computer in
> it....then the big server sends your little iPhone the audio data to speak
> it back to you in the other language.
wrong. it does not use a data connection.
> Translation is a massive fuzzy logic monster that's not going to happen in
> some tiny processor with no memory to speak of....especially if it talks to
> you.
wrong again.
Your Name
>
> I don't see how an iPhone could store the huge library of SPOKEN words
> necessary in TWO languages in its tiny memory. Not possible.
Why?? You manage to store English and Crapese in your even smaller memory.
:-\
Why does the Android browser stop working during a phone call, I thought this was a multitasking phone?
Zing!
I bet you did not see that one coming Larry.
Not Me
Then the iToy isn't a translator at all. It's a dumb terminal.
George Kerby
On 10/31/09 2:01 PM, in article Xns9CB5A2F296...@74.209.131.13,
"Larry" <no...@home.com> wrote:
OK. "�C�mo son los gofres aqu�?"
George Kerby
On 10/31/09 5:46 PM, in article op.u2ouz...@acer250.gateway.2wire.net,
"tlvp" <mPiOsUcB...@att.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:20:25 -0400, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
>
>> Ha ha.....Tell Google to translate "kiss my ass" to spanish...
>> Try it.
>
> Not Google, and not just to Spanish, but then to French and thence back to
> English:
>
> "embrace my mule" :-) .
>
> Cheers, -- tlvp
"Choke mi pollo!"
George Kerby
On 10/31/09 9:51 PM, in article 311020092351270431%nos...@nospam.invalid,
"nospam" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
Three strikes! Lar is back to the WaffleHouse dugout...
News
�C�mo hacen usted tienen gusto de mi juguete brillante del terminal mudo?
George Kerby
On 11/1/09 9:02 AM, in article
hZadnd5ykde-PnDX...@speakeasy.net, "News" <Ne...@Groups.Name>
wrote:
Realmente no me importa su vibrador. Eso es entre usted y su mano.
News
�Debe usted ganar pros�litos sus perversiones en un foro p�blico?
David Moyer
> In article <Xns9CB5EBBD6DE...@74.209.131.13>, Larry
> <no...@home.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't see how an iPhone could store the huge library of SPOKEN words
> > necessary in TWO languages in its tiny memory. Not possible.
>
> the app is 158 megabytes. current iphones are 16 or 32 gigabytes. do
> the math.
i think larry has a permeant mental block about memory. he's the guy
that thought having removable storage on a mobile device was still a
good idea. he's totally BLIND to the fact most iphones come with 16
GIGABYTES of available storage, so trying to still use a SD card is
pointless.
he's still living in 2004, i'm afraid.
News
Whereas AAPL-bots still believe in "Steve's way or the highway".
Todd Allcock
> i think larry has a permeant mental block about memory. he's the guy
> that thought having removable storage on a mobile device was still a
> good idea. he's totally BLIND to the fact most iphones come with 16
> GIGABYTES of available storage, so trying to still use a SD card is
> pointless.
>
> he's still living in 2004, i'm afraid.
As opposed to you, who still has plug his phone into a computer to copy a
song to it. How 1999...
DevilsPGD
<mPiOsUcB...@att.net> was claimed to have wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:20:25 -0400, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
>
>> Ha ha.....Tell Google to translate "kiss my ass" to spanish...
>> Try it.
>
>Not Google, and not just to Spanish, but then to French and thence back to English:
>
> "embrace my mule" :-) .
I suspect the message would be received loud and clear.
Larry
news:XridnThrtKhlRXDX...@speakeasy.net:
Notice how there has been ZERO response to my challenge to iphoners to
convert the text on iphone examples I posted converted by Google......
ZERO.....only the canned few word bullshit of the Apple ads.....
I want to see it convert:
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like Google translates it:
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descripciones de productos y servicios o el contenido de los sitios es
exacta, completa, fiable, actualizada, actual o libre de errores. A
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Larry
News
Same day? With the petaflops available on the iToy?
David Moyer
yes, that action works perfectly. download any song from anywhere, drag
and drop... bam! it doesn't get any easier than that.
it's the pure beauty of any ipod or iphone...
Your Name
>
> I want to see it convert:
And we'd like to see you piss off and get a braincell ... but apparently
that aint gonna happen. :-( You're simply a moron.
George Kerby
On 11/2/09 3:34 PM, in article
C5KdneU6OYTBzXLX...@speakeasy.net, "News" <Ne...@Group.Name>
wrote:
Good boy! Respect ol' dad with his dreams. See ya guys at The W!
News
Joke's on you iFlop fanbois.
Larry
news:C5KdneU6OYTBzXLX...@speakeasy.net:
> Same day? With the petaflops available on the iToy?
>
>
>
Same week?....hee hee...
--
Larry
Larry
Todd Allcock
> Todd Allcock <elecc...@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
> > As opposed to you, who still has plug his phone into a computer to
> > copy a song to it. How 1999...
>
> yes, that action works perfectly. download any song from anywhere, drag
> and drop... bam! it doesn't get any easier than that.
>
> it's the pure beauty of any ipod or iphone...
Recently on vacation, I "dragged and dropped" my daughter's new Hanna
Montana CD from my home PC in Colorado to my Windows Mobile phone in
Chicago over the hotel's WiFi. From there it was an easy matter to copy
it to her MP3 player via the phone's removable flash memory. (Normally I
wouldn't have bothered, but I promised to load it on her player before
leaving but didn't get around to it.)
...THAT's the pure beauty of a platform not beholden to the RIAA or the
NAB...