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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Frobozz
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2005-12-04

1) It's not the native language of any European country (or any other country, actually), so there's little or no unfair advantage or privilege to any one country.

Klingon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language ) works under that rule as well - doesn't mean I'd want to speak it on a regular basis though.

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DigitalAxis Member since:
2005-08-28

Your monopolistic behaviour is WITHOUT HONOUR!

*cuts Steve Balmer with Bat'leth*

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