As former language access coordinator for Fairfax County government and current teacher (at a local community college) of interpretation skills for bilinguals seeking to be qualified or certified interpreters, I found this video very interesting and thought provoking. As a bilingual/bicultural naturalized-American (Spanish my birth-language, English my primary language), I love the diversity of language and culture of the United States. What a wonderful country of opportunity, innovation and hope.
First of all, amazing graphics and FX in this episode! Second, I made an App called Speechy (retired now) that used VR and as your camera aimed at words, using Asynchronous calls, it would translate and ask the user to use GPS to determine language (if out of the country) or using Google it would try to auto-determine but also had to option for voice- it would speak it. Ready for the kicker? For Windows Phone. Sadly, no longer around. But it can be done but best on WiFi.
Sorry if this was included in the video, but, just asking, how would the grammar work? Like, for some Asian languages, such as Chinese, the grammar is somewhat different, and the receiver could be a bit confused at times.
Economic and maketing (no brainer...there wouldn't be a need for a single trade language anymore and would open up new opportunity for international corporation), tourism (with the fear of being lost in translation gone...people would be more inclined to save up and go on that trip to china or japan or even certain parts of eastern europe), social barriers between people from accross the world (you could make friends on an international scale with people of different backgrounds opening up people to social and cultural tolerance rather than closing them off due to mis translations or lack of understanding)...then there is also coalition application and militaristic application (lets not lie...its much easier to speak in your native tongue than try and talk to someone from a different contry in their tongue...coalition military included...suddenly the German, the French, and the Scottish Soldier can sit down and discuss things in their own tongues and facilitate meetings, there are many possible military applications to this as well that I just won't go into.)
There are already plenty of translation devices, but I don't think any as good as a human translator, at least not yet. I tried using google translate to talk in a french chat room (and talk to someone who went back to France for Christmas) and with both, they didn't come out right, and they were like "Woah, I couldn't understand you"
I really wish they'd create a neural realtime translator that would translate both text and voices. Though we are nowhere near that, and even if we were, that'd be crazy expensive
I'd like a real time translation device for my boyfriends cat. He just meows and meows and walks under my feet, I fill his food bowl, supply water, open the window and he's disinterested in all those things. Its distressing. I scream "What do you want infernal Kitteh?!" and Jub Jub just sits there, meowing at me. I'm learning though, there's some things he does when he wants to be let outside, He meows at his food and water bowls if he needs those things - or loudly and annoyingly at my tasty food if he wants those things. ...I thought the only solution to find peace would be if he ran away someday, or if I ate my cheeseburgers in the other room with the doors closed, but thinking about it, I kind of like the little furball and in all honesty, I fear he's trying to get his head around opening doors. I do love him, but our misunderstandings are really forming a barrier in our relationship. ... A translation device would be just dandy to help us get along,
*I WOULD LOVE To Use This App Technology to Temporarily Record conversations in foreign languages, (For Translation Only) To Hear weather or not People Are talking shit in a PUBLIC PLACE! (Whenever necessary people will switch over to their native Foreign Language when SPEAKING ILL of Others.. REGARDLESS what nationality you are or what language you speak, or where your living, I Can GUARANTEE 110% that you have heard Foreigners (and non) have Laughed, joked, and spoke ill about You/Others, Without anyone of you having any clue whatsoever. (ONLY Being left with a Strong GUT feeling that they were speaking about you, your friends and/or family) "IN SHORT".. Speaking in a language foreign to either ALL Or MOST of any foreign Country is EXTREMELY RUDE when done in PUBLIC PLACES! Such as a Restaurant or any other public location. "I'll pray for the day this particular App is created!!"*
I think there would be no "real" real time translation if the input is voice, not something else that's directly from your brain. For example, Japanese, to say "I'm okay"( consist of 2 words ) -> Daijobu ( consist of 1 word ), then smart phone need to wait till I finish saying 2 words to produce 1 word translation..so using voice as input wont be effective coz there will be always a delay... BUT, if there is gonna be some kind of device that could read my mind, by only thinking about what Im saying and that device can capture it, then that's what you called as "REAL TIME" translator :D
I think a really strong predictive, probabilistic model could help a lot. It would be similar to how predictive text tries to complete a word or phrase in text-based applications (I've mainly seen it in text messaging services). Combine that with a probabilistic algorithm that assigns probabilities to words, phrases or even meanings and makes decisions based on probability and you could, hypothetically, keep up with a speaker as he/she talks in a native language. I don't think it will be easy but I think it's possible.
Jonathan Strickland busetgadapet What if it didn't use audio as input. What if it calibrated to your brain so that the images that you see (caused by electrical input across synapses) caused the device to see the same thing. Then, it would not only be in real time, or at least as fast as you would speak without it, but it would also help you express yourself more clearly. There would have to be a way to filter what is just a thought and what you would actually say to keep you from saying something offensive.
It called vcore its an app on itunes it completely awesome! or a Babbelfish, there's and app called that as well, not the one from the hitchhikers guide to the universe. lol
Google's Google Translate and Voice Search on Google Search have existed for years. The two can easily be combined to do this. How is this news? And why isn't Google dominating in this domain?
One big challenge is the real-time nature of translation. Being able to capture meaning and intention and then translate it into a new language that keeps all that meaning with no delay is tough. We're getting closer but it's not quite sophisticated enough to work seamlessly. One fun thing to try is to use Google Translate and change a fairly complex sentence into a few different languages (by copying and pasting the translated text into the input field and choosing a new target language) before returning to your native language. Often it will end up being fairly different from the original sentence.
Interesting that you used the Babel fish example, but I'd think a technological solution would be more akin to the Universal Translator from Star Trek, rather than a fish that is the final clinching proof of the non-existence of god.
As much as this would be incredible, I think that we have too many languages that need to go extinct. If ther were only a couple languages, people would possibly be able to speak them all
Y U NOT ON TV????? Seriously, with all the garbage out there, why is your show not on Discovery roster of TV shows? Science Channel, I'm speaking to you!!!
Ortsbo dot com and Yappn dot com do exactly what he is talking about... Ortsbo was free, like facebook, for a time but they could not generate revenue and it was costing them 500K per month to maintain 212 Million users. The majority of these users where from the BRIC Countries so they shut that program down and are now doing other things with monetization. But everything this guy talked about Ortsbo can do...
Useless languages dying out is a good thing. A lot of effort is unnecessarily wasted on learning different languages. If you want to study many languages you don't need active speakers for that.
Actually I am very disappointed as This was one of my ideas...:) I already had it started using MIC controllers where I wanted my family to communicate with other people in English with ease...oh,I cant really believe that this is happening again. Is there any way I can take a patent for my ideas which I haven't implemented completely...
How would this save languages from going extinct. If you no longer have to learn them then less people will be fluent in them making different languages die out quicker. Even if the languages are saved on the devices real people won't speak them. I feel like this would make things worse and make people more lazy.
It's a brilliant idea, but considering how awful Google Translate is (using it as an example since you used it as one - and I bet they'll be on that like flies on shit) - I doubt it'll be that useful. The only 'good' translators I've seen are bilingual human beings.
Rodney way As much as i love Japanese language...No thanks. Probably one of the hardest to learn written language i can think of....And hardly anyone speaks it so probably not the best choice ; )
No it's really not that hard to learn most of my friends that have tried learning it and others online that I've spoken say it's only taken then at most a year to learn to speak it and another to learn to write.
As former language access coordinator for Fairfax County government and current teacher (at a local community college) of interpretation skills for bilinguals seeking to be qualified or certified interpreters, I found this video very interesting and thought provoking. As a bilingual/bicultural naturalized-American (Spanish my birth-language, English my primary language), I love the diversity of language and culture of the United States. What a wonderful country of opportunity, innovation and hope.
First of all, amazing graphics and FX in this episode!
Second, I made an App called Speechy (retired now) that used VR and as your camera aimed at words, using Asynchronous calls, it would translate and ask the user to use GPS to determine language (if out of the country) or using Google it would try to auto-determine but also had to option for voice- it would speak it.
Ready for the kicker? For Windows Phone. Sadly, no longer around. But it can be done but best on WiFi.
Nice video, for the next one can you discuss whether the pair Olympics would exist in the future when prosthetics are equal to human counter parts?
Sorry if this was included in the video, but, just asking, how would the grammar work? Like, for some Asian languages, such as Chinese, the grammar is somewhat different, and the receiver could be a bit confused at times.
Economic and maketing (no brainer...there wouldn't be a need for a single trade language anymore and would open up new opportunity for international corporation), tourism (with the fear of being lost in translation gone...people would be more inclined to save up and go on that trip to china or japan or even certain parts of eastern europe), social barriers between people from accross the world (you could make friends on an international scale with people of different backgrounds opening up people to social and cultural tolerance rather than closing them off due to mis translations or lack of understanding)...then there is also coalition application and militaristic application (lets not lie...its much easier to speak in your native tongue than try and talk to someone from a different contry in their tongue...coalition military included...suddenly the German, the French, and the Scottish Soldier can sit down and discuss things in their own tongues and facilitate meetings, there are many possible military applications to this as well that I just won't go into.)
There are already plenty of translation devices, but I don't think any as good as a human translator, at least not yet. I tried using google translate to talk in a french chat room (and talk to someone who went back to France for Christmas) and with both, they didn't come out right, and they were like "Woah, I couldn't understand you"
You pointed at pick a random video, which is more than one video. Great video!:)
What can I say? I love surprises!
Oh my goodness. I have this idea in my mind. I am searching for the supporting stuffs from last two months to start the implimentation !!!!!!!!!!
Great video! Like always (:
I really wish they'd create a neural realtime translator that would translate both text and voices. Though we are nowhere near that, and even if we were, that'd be crazy expensive
I'd like a real time translation device for my boyfriends cat. He just meows and meows and walks under my feet, I fill his food bowl, supply water, open the window and he's disinterested in all those things. Its distressing. I scream "What do you want infernal Kitteh?!" and Jub Jub just sits there, meowing at me.
I'm learning though, there's some things he does when he wants to be let outside, He meows at his food and water bowls if he needs those things - or loudly and annoyingly at my tasty food if he wants those things.
...I thought the only solution to find peace would be if he ran away someday, or if I ate my cheeseburgers in the other room with the doors closed, but thinking about it, I kind of like the little furball and in all honesty, I fear he's trying to get his head around opening doors.
I do love him, but our misunderstandings are really forming a barrier in our relationship.
... A translation device would be just dandy to help us get along,
No more languages in school we would only need to know one language and just translate it and it will save us much time in school.
Did anyone else get a commercial for the channel this is on BEFORE the video? Because I did.
*I WOULD LOVE To Use This App Technology to Temporarily Record conversations in foreign languages, (For Translation Only) To Hear weather or not People Are talking shit in a PUBLIC PLACE! (Whenever necessary people will switch over to their native Foreign Language when SPEAKING ILL of Others.. REGARDLESS what nationality you are or what language you speak, or where your living, I Can GUARANTEE 110% that you have heard Foreigners (and non) have Laughed, joked, and spoke ill about You/Others, Without anyone of you having any clue whatsoever. (ONLY Being left with a Strong GUT feeling that they were speaking about you, your friends and/or family) "IN SHORT".. Speaking in a language foreign to either ALL Or MOST of any foreign Country is EXTREMELY RUDE when done in PUBLIC PLACES! Such as a Restaurant or any other public location. "I'll pray for the day this particular App is created!!"*
what application can this have in the present world we live in today? Nothing short of a global revolution in communication and empathetic relations
I love the hitchhiker guide to the Galaxy
I think there would be no "real" real time translation if the input is voice, not something else that's directly from your brain. For example, Japanese, to say "I'm okay"( consist of 2 words ) -> Daijobu ( consist of 1 word ), then smart phone need to wait till I finish saying 2 words to produce 1 word translation..so using voice as input wont be effective coz there will be always a delay...
BUT, if there is gonna be some kind of device that could read my mind, by only thinking about what Im saying and that device can capture it, then that's what you called as "REAL TIME" translator :D
I think a really strong predictive, probabilistic model could help a lot. It would be similar to how predictive text tries to complete a word or phrase in text-based applications (I've mainly seen it in text messaging services). Combine that with a probabilistic algorithm that assigns probabilities to words, phrases or even meanings and makes decisions based on probability and you could, hypothetically, keep up with a speaker as he/she talks in a native language. I don't think it will be easy but I think it's possible.
Jonathan Strickland busetgadapet What if it didn't use audio as input. What if it calibrated to your brain so that the images that you see (caused by electrical input across synapses) caused the device to see the same thing. Then, it would not only be in real time, or at least as fast as you would speak without it, but it would also help you express yourself more clearly. There would have to be a way to filter what is just a thought and what you would actually say to keep you from saying something offensive.
It called vcore its an app on itunes it completely awesome! or a Babbelfish, there's and app called that as well, not the one from the hitchhikers guide to the universe. lol
DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A VOICE TRANSLATOR FOR WINDOWS 10 THAT YOU CAN RECORD TO OVERLAY INTO A VIDEO OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION?
Im going to vietnam what can I use?
Quiero hablar muchos los idiomas
i wanna speak like all the languages of the world tbh .
Google's Google Translate and Voice Search on Google Search have existed for years. The two can easily be combined to do this. How is this news? And why isn't Google dominating in this domain?
One big challenge is the real-time nature of translation. Being able to capture meaning and intention and then translate it into a new language that keeps all that meaning with no delay is tough. We're getting closer but it's not quite sophisticated enough to work seamlessly. One fun thing to try is to use Google Translate and change a fairly complex sentence into a few different languages (by copying and pasting the translated text into the input field and choosing a new target language) before returning to your native language. Often it will end up being fairly different from the original sentence.
Interesting that you used the Babel fish example, but I'd think a technological solution would be more akin to the Universal Translator from Star Trek, rather than a fish that is the final clinching proof of the non-existence of god.
As much as this would be incredible, I think that we have too many languages that need to go extinct. If ther were only a couple languages, people would possibly be able to speak them all
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I'd ask a plant how it was doing lol
Get Aibecy. It's really good! Very accurate translation device, and very good reviews!
Get aibecy
Y U NOT ON TV????? Seriously, with all the garbage out there, why is your show not on Discovery roster of TV shows? Science Channel, I'm speaking to you!!!
Ortsbo dot com and Yappn dot com do exactly what he is talking about... Ortsbo was free, like facebook, for a time but they could not generate revenue and it was costing them 500K per month to maintain 212 Million users. The majority of these users where from the BRIC Countries so they shut that program down and are now doing other things with monetization. But everything this guy talked about Ortsbo can do...
"Auditory canal"? You mean ear?
KISS
Or everyone can learn Esperanto in school.
Useless languages dying out is a good thing. A lot of effort is unnecessarily wasted on learning different languages. If you want to study many languages you don't need active speakers for that.
This is the most ignorant comment I have ever seen in my life, and I spend a lot of time on youtube looking at ignorant comments.
Mason Reed Please explain.
Actually I am very disappointed as This was one of my ideas...:) I already had it started using MIC controllers where I wanted my family to communicate with other people in English with ease...oh,I cant really believe that this is happening again. Is there any way I can take a patent for my ideas which I haven't implemented completely...
How would this save languages from going extinct. If you no longer have to learn them then less people will be fluent in them making different languages die out quicker. Even if the languages are saved on the devices real people won't speak them. I feel like this would make things worse and make people more lazy.
Languages transition from italano to english
裡面有很多中文的錯字
LYRICALPRO!!
Well 911 can definitely try one
Nicccceee but it works really 🎤🤔
It's a brilliant idea, but considering how awful Google Translate is (using it as an example since you used it as one - and I bet they'll be on that like flies on shit) - I doubt it'll be that useful. The only 'good' translators I've seen are bilingual human beings.
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Something is wrong with your nostral ,it looks funny
Miss Philippines doesn't need this.
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or.......we can just have one universal language. ENGLISH!
How about chinese.
I say we go with Japanese.
Rodney way
As much as i love Japanese language...No thanks. Probably one of the hardest to learn written language i can think of....And hardly anyone speaks it so probably not the best choice ; )
No it's really not that hard to learn most of my friends that have tried learning it and others online that I've spoken say it's only taken then at most a year to learn to speak it and another to learn to write.
Spanish is easier, you pronounce it the way you write it
hindi to english translator
jeetu asholiya hi
U r waste mi time.....tanks