When we saw the conclusion (implied in the title above) of a news article on Google’s efforts to facilitate translation, we thought it would be interesting to include it in our blog. It seems that Google is working on instantaneous translation software for phones. If you talk in English into the speaker of the phone it would translate it, and produce French, or Spanish, or whatever, in the receiver of another phone.

The Googler working on the project, Franz Och, says it should only take a few years to complete. Franz says the more people that use it, the better it gets.

“Speech to text is imprecise on phones we’ve used. Web-based translation services are also imprecise. Add them together and you have a great opportunity to be misunderstood,” according to the report published in the Business Insider.