A giant step was made a decade later when IBM displayed the "Shoebox" at the 1962 World's Fair-it could recognize a whopping 16 words. Bell Laboratories debuted its futuristic "Audrey" system in 1952 that recognized the spoken digits 0-9. This week's announcement is a reminder of just how far we have come since the earliest days of digital voice recognition. But Google says direct digital translation from uploaded audio files is not yet available. The app will also work with playbacks of prerecorded audio. In addition to English, translations are available in French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai. In conversation mode, the app permits users to have a back-and-forth conversation with someone speaking a different language. The rollout begins today (March 18) and should be available to all users by the end of the week at Google's Play Store. The Google Translate function in Google Sheets allows you to translate text in your spreadsheets from one language to another. The only requirements are having only one speaker talking at a time in a quiet room (other voices or noises will diminish accuracy) and an Internet connection, necessary for interaction with Google's cloud-based Tensor Processing Units. The feature will allow users to obtain instantaneous text translations of ongoing speeches, lectures or monologues into any of eight languages, including English.Ĭurrently, Translate allows conversions of only relatively short snippets of speech.
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