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)
4 Responses to Step Aside, Berlitz
iriselina - December 15, 2011 at 10:51 am
WOW! What a thrilling experience for you.Congratulations !
lydiatimmins - December 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm
very cool!
dank48 - December 15, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Updike was amazing, in many ways. Years ago I read a very good–and obviously memorable–article in Esquire, by a writer who was reorganizing his books. He mentioned that the jackets to his Updike novels were getting ragged, so he removed them. Only then did he see that Updike, who designed his own books, had (as we say these days) proactively done the uniform edition of the works of John Updike.
Any idea who might have written that piece?
Carol Saller - December 15, 2011 at 3:12 pm
What lovely memories!
I once stood in line to have a book signed by Updike, and it took a long time because he kindly chatted with every person. When it was my turn I was shy and couldn’t think of anything to ask him and we ended up talking about our seasonal allergies.