Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri 185
judgecorp writes "Google Translate for Android, the mobile version of Google's machine translation software, now translates speech back and forth between 14 languages, the company claims. Earlier this year the company added Conversation Mode, which lets users to translate chats between English and Spanish. Now Google has made the tool available from Android 2.2 handsets and later in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Turkish. The arrival of Siri on the iPhone could spark serious competition in translation systems on phones."
Re:How long until... (Score:5, Funny)
Dangerous times lay ahead when asking your appliances anything about tossed salad.
Re:Siri and translation (Score:4, Funny)
...... Siri: usable natural language voice recognition (at least that's how they sell it) .....
Japanese people beg to differ... :D [youtube.com]
I'm looking forward to the day... (Score:4, Funny)
Then we can focus on something really important like who was more influential - Dennis Ritchie or Steve Jobs....