Star Bringing Down the Language Barrier - Automatically
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd May 2008 20:52 UTC, submitted by irbis
In the News One of the biggest problems facing the European Union today is the fact that within its borders, 23 languages are spoken. This means that all the important documents have to be translated by a whole army of translators, which costs the taxpayer more than 1 billion Euros a year - and companies trading within the EU spend millions more. The EU-funded TC-STAR project aims to tackle this issue with technology: a system that eats speech in one language, and outputs that same speech in another.
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RE: Federation already has this
by macUser on Sat 3rd May 2008 00:17 UTC in reply to "Federation already has this"
macUser
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2006-12-15

They should borrow the technology from the United Federation of Planets. No use developing this yourselves. Either that, or just go with the obvious choice: US English.


The US can't even standardize on a single language, what makes you think the EU can?

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