Posted on 10/06/2003 4:04:40 PM PDT by blam
Scientists claim to invent instant translator
Scientists claim to have invented an instant translator which will allow people talking on phones in different languages to understand each other.
A research team from Rousse in Bulgaria claim to have patented the technology which converts words spoken in one language into digital code which can then be immediately interpreted into another language.
The translator chip can be inserted into any phone, the scientists claim.
Project leader Koycho Mitev told BTV national television: "A person can talk freely on the phone in their mother tongue and at the other end of the world people will hear the translation of what they say."
The Bulgarian team says it has also worked out a computer program that translates texts.
Mitev said that if investors show an interest in the technology, practical application can begin within a year.
Story filed: 11:27 Monday 6th October 2003
scientists state an immediate translator to have invented the people permitted, which speak at the telephones in the different languages, in order to understand itself. A research crew of Rousse in Bulgaria requirement the technology patented, which converts the words, which are spoken in a language in digital code, which can be interpreted into another language then immediately. The translator splinter can be inserted into each possible telephone, the requirement for scientist. Project manager Koycho Mitev explained national television to BTV: "a person can speak the people the translation at the telephone in her native language freely and at the other end of the world hear of, which they say." The Bulgarian crew says that it prepared also a computer program, texts translated. Mitev said that, if investors show an interest in the technology practical application can begin within a yearly. |
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Set: A tobacconist's shop.
Text on screen: In 1970, the British Empire lay in ruins, and foreign nationalists frequented the streets - many of them Hungarians (not the streets - the foreign nationals). Anyway, many of these Hungarians went into tobacconist's shops to buy cigarettes....
A Hungarian tourist (John Cleese) approaches the clerk (Terry Jones). The tourist is reading haltingly from a phrase book.
Hungarian: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Clerk: Sorry?
Hungarian I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Clerk: Uh, no, no, no. This is a tobacconist's.
Hungarian: Ah! I will not buy this *tobacconist's*, it is scratched.
Clerk: No, no, no, no. Tobacco...um...cigarettes (holds up a pack).
Hungarian: Ya! See-gar-ets! Ya! Uh...My hovercraft is full of eels.
Clerk: Sorry?
Hungarian: My hovercraft (pantomimes puffing a cigarette)...is full of eels (pretends to strike a match).
Clerk: Ahh, matches!
Hungarian: Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Do you waaaaant...do you waaaaaant...to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
Clerk: Here, I don't think you're using that thing right.
Hungarian: You great poof.
Clerk: That'll be six and six, please.
Hungarian: If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I...I am no longer infected.
Clerk: Uh, may I, uh...(takes phrase book, flips through it)...Costs six and six...ah, here we are. (speaks weird Hungarian-sounding words)
Hungarian punches the clerk.
Meanwhile, a policeman (Graham Chapman) on a quiet street cups his ear as if hearing a cry of distress. He sprints for many blocks and finally enters the tobacconist's.
Cop: What's going on here then?
Hungarian: Ah. You have beautiful thighs.
Cop: (looks down at himself) WHAT?!?
Clerk: He hit me!
Hungarian: Drop your panties now, Sir William; I cannot wait 'til lunchtime
(points at clerk)
Cop: RIGHT!!! (drags Hungarian away by the arm)
Hungarian: (indignantly) My nipples explode with delight!
Nah, it's a translator not, a mind reader.
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Yeah, right. As an experiment, I copied this article into Babelfish — currently the state-of-the-art in automated translation — and had it turn the article into German. The, in went the resulting German, to be turned back into English. Here's the result: