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October 27, 2005, 1:46 pm

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are unveiling an array of high-tech language-translation tools today, and some of the devices look like they’ve been lifted from the pages of a Philip K. Dick novel. There is a prototype for a pair of glasses that can turn speech streams into subtitles and then display them on a tiny LCD screen. And a device called the Muscle Translator uses an array of electrodes to interpret the facial movements of someone mouthing words and translate those motions into actual speech. (CNET News)

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