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Microsoft’s Concept Translating Phone

Warner Crocker —  03/02/2010

Microsoft is showing off some pretty amazing technology at TechFest. Todd Bishop and others got a chance to take a look at what is being called the Translating Phone. It not only makes a transcription of your conversation that becomes searchable in Exchange, but it also translates in real time a voice conversation that you might be having with someone who speaks a different language.

Obviously this isn’t letter perfect at the moment, and there’s no hint of when it might become a product, but I have to say, the demo looks pretty cool.

Warner Crocker

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Warner Crocker is a professional theatre director, producer and playwright and also a Tablet PC enthusiast. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Tablet PCs. Send email to Warner.

2 responses to Microsoft’s Concept Translating Phone

  1. SAM 03/02/2010 at 12:36 pm

    Universal Translater, old hat

    They’ve had these on Star trek since the 60′s
    –LOL–

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  2. Raphael 03/02/2010 at 2:34 pm

    The english translation of the german words is pretty good. Unfortunately he muted the german speaking output. That would be interesting too, but I think it’s not as good as the english translation.

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