Among the master innovators of our era, Google, has just revealed one of the next big projects on its plate, and as would be appropriate for a company that just launched its own smartphone, the Google Nexus One, it’s a smartphone-related project. It is, in essence, a “universal translator” for smartphones.
The “universal translator” terminology is more a Gene Rodenberry term than Google’s, but the idea is the same – a piece of software (whether an app or a program built into a smartphone’s operating system) that automatically translates the words a person is speaking into the mic on a smartphone into the language understood best by the party listening on the receiving end of the line.
The promise for this type of technology is astounding, bringing the global community closer together than ever before conceivable.
Text translation and voice commands have long (in smartphone years) been a staple of the industry. So speech-to-speech translation shouldn’t be too tough to work out. At least so say the tireless innovators at Google.
Don’t get too excited, though. It’ll still probably take a couple years to iron the kinks out.
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