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Google To Release New Real-Time Voice Translator

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Google is glowing a bit closer to Star Trek’s universal translator with the latest version of its Translate application.

Rolling out over the next few days for ioS and Android clients, the recent edition of Google Translate comes up with two key features – the capability to immediately talk with somebody communicating in a different lingo and the ability to interpret road signs and other pictures into your local dialect.

Both features have been accessible in the Android application to some degree. For instance, Google Translate for Android has since quite a while ago offered real-time translation of conversations. However, Google’s objective behind the recent edition of the application is to improve and streamline the peculiarities so they work all the more rapidly and smoothly without any slack time.

As Google Translate item lead Barak Turovsky wrote in a blog posted on Wednesday: “When chatting with somebody in a different dilect, conversations can… get… realllllllly… sloowwww.”

The recent edition of Google Translate intends to change that. To talk with somebody conversing in an unfimiliar dialect, a user picks his dialect and that of the other speaker. He then taps the microphone icon in the application, begins talking in his local or chose dialect, and afterward taps the mic icon once more. The application will distinguish which of the two dialects is being talked, and afterward the two speakers can carry on their discussion without needing to continue tapping the mic.

In a test of the application’s immediate translation, The New York Times said it did end up being a breakthrough; however, its not sci-fi simply yet. The application fared best with short sentences that did exclude slang, and it worked better when the users gapped between every translation.

Google also has beefed up the application’s capability to translate road signs. Formerly, you’d need to take a photograph of the foreign text to get a translation of it. Now, you just point your cam at the sign and the translated content seems overlaid on your screen – though you’re not connected with the Internet. This feature is made possible courtesy of Quest Visual’s Word Lens application for iOS and Android, which Google acquired when it obtained the company last May.

This feature supports English translated to and from French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Google says its trying to include more dialects.

Since early Wednesday, the overhauled application had not showed up in the App Store or Google Play. Google guarantees that it will pop up throughout the next few days. This additionally will be the first time the iOS version will be furnished with both the conversation mode and the cam translations.

“More than 500 million individuals use Google Translate every month, making more than 1 billion translations a day to more effectively converse and access data across dialects,” Turovsky said. “Today’s overhauls make us one step closer to transforming your smartphone into a universal translator and to a world where language is no more an obstruction to finding data or connecting with one another.”

Microsoft also is probing into the region of automated translation with the newest sample version of Skype Translator. The new version will have the capacity to translate conversations and, eventually, texts in close real-time. At first Microsoft is intending the recent release just at Windows 8.1 Pcs and tablets and just in Spanish and English, so it won’t offer the profundity of Google Translate. However, Microsoft aims to expand Skype Translate to other gadgets and platforms over the long run.

Soviet-era Russian rockets in spotlight after Antares Rocket explosion

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The explosion of the Antares rocket bound for the International Space Station late Tuesday night has shed light on America’s reliance on foreign hardware, some of which dates back to the Soviet era.

The Antares, exploded six seconds after liftoff from NASA’s Wallops Island Facility in Eastern Virginia, built by Orbital Sciences was the third rocket in a series of eight as part of a $1.9 billion contract with NASA.

It is still too early to comment on what was the reason behind the blast but Orbital Sciences executive vice president Frank Culbertson was asked in a press conference about the use of refurbished Russian engine hardware.

Orbital employs AJ26 engines from Aerojet Rocketdyne, which are derived from the Russian NK-33 engine and were initially developed to take the N-1 rocket to the moon in the early 70s.

“Basically, this was an engine that was designed to carry cosmonauts to the moon – a number of them were bought by Aerojet several years ago to be refurbished and ‘Americanized’ and provided to American industry,” explained Culbertson. “It’s an extensively tested engine – it’s very robust and rugged.”

Executive director of Explore Mars, Chris Carberry was of the view that U.S. should not rely too much on overseas technology in order to support its space program. He also expressed that though the U.S. has been taking steps to become less reliant on Russian engines but this is only due to the current ongoing tensions between the two governments.

In addition to this, SpaceX, a rival of Orbital Sciences has been considerably boasting about the fact that it builds its own rocket engines from scratch.

Adding insult to injury, Russia successfully launched its own unmanned supply ship to the International Space Station early on Wednesday.

Some experts believe that these things would continue to occur more frequently because both the Bush and Obama administration have not provided adequate funding for high quality U.S. space effort.

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