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Topic: My latest billion dollar idea

So, I understand there's a program, that will let a guy talk into a microphone, and his speech is transcribed into txt in a word file


and there's another program that will read text loud into speakers or headphones, so the deaf can read books,


and there's Google Translate, where I take a block of text, tell google what language it is, and what language I want it to be, and it generates another block of text in my language


so

why don't they put them together?  I wear a computer on my belt, and a mike, and a guy or a TV or a radio talking at me in Arabic or Russian is recorded as undisplayed text, and then every five seconds a chunk is translated into English in another undisplayed file, and the computer reads that second english text into my headphones

um yeah why not?

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yes there is program for that in my cell phone but i havent tried it yet...i will need it in near future ;-)

Proverbs 11:14 "Where there is no guidance the people fall,
But in abundance of counselors there is a victory."

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why not? because while google's translator software is surprisingly good for a computer program, it's still very bad compared to first hand knowledge of a language or a human translator

also I'm fairly certain star trek came up with your idea first wink

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I think you should try using a speech-to-text program first (Youtube -> Transcribe Audio). Then get someone who speaks another language to translate their speech to English using a computer translator. Then open up Microsoft's text-to-speech utility on windows and type in the characters "SOI" without quotes.

You'll quickly realize why this idea isn't quite worth a billion dollars yet.

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"why not? because while google's translator software is surprisingly good for a computer program, it's still very bad compared to first hand knowledge of a language"

new jack, please! I'm american

"also I'm fairly certain star trek came up with your idea first"

Lieses!! Their translators were linked to a ship not the internet, a revolutionary design improvement that means I owe them $0


"You'll quickly realize why this idea isn't quite worth a billion dollars yet."

remember that wehn you sue me for your cut!  it wasn't worth all that much, you said

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Speech recognition blows essentially.

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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because your lazy and your not even going to make a effort pass this. At least that would be my case

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Alena!! :d

"Heh heh heh heh heh heh!"

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I'm not lazy I'm ignorant!

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By the time you get the output the message will be so distorted that the meaning completely changed.

"Could you pass me the salt, please?"

would then become something like

"Your sister has a lovely anus."

I can see this invention stirr up some trouble. Especially in arabic countries.

What do I have to work with?

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Why thank you for that wonderful sentiment TU.

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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zanga zanga!

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anal sex keeps your sister a virgin



> [TI]  The_Unknown wrote:

> By the time you get the output the message will be so distorted that the meaning completely changed.

"Could you pass me the salt, please?"

would then become something like

"Your sister has a lovely anus."

I can see this invention stirr up some trouble. Especially in arabic countries.

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