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Krzysztof Raczkowiak
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Poland
Local time: 21:57
English to Polish
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Feb 8, 2010

"Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition (...)."

At present we have achieved none of the above. But in 5 year's time...
 
claude
claude
Thailand
Local time: 21:57
English to French
Feb 9, 2010

Sure. It should improve the quality of chinese household appliances manuals translations. For the rest, it should rely on good quality source text/language, which is not always the case.
 
Terry Richards
Terry Richards
France
Local time: 21:57
French to English
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Feb 12, 2010

We'll get perfect translation about the same time we get 100% accurate waether forecasting - i.e. never.

We might get acceptible translation within my lifetime but I'm not holding my breath. To correctly translate even the most basic of text, you first need to *understand* it. For understanding you need real AI and that has been 20 years away ever since I can remember (and that is more time than I care to admit!)
 


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