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Sakhr Mobile Speech to Speech Translation Demo (video)
Sakhr Mobile Speech to Speech Translation Demo (video)
Sakhr Mobile S2S Translation is a first of its kind open speech-to-speech mobile translation application for the U.S. government and business customers. The ...
Remarkable Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator Coming to iPhone and Blackberry - sakhr
Remarkable Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator Coming to iPhone and Blackberry - sakhr
gizmodo.com — Sakhr is a translation company with big clients like the U.S. Department of Defense and Homeland Security.... They specialize in English/Arabic translation, and this demo of their iPhone/Blackberry app (not publicly available) looks like the Holy Grail ... (more) Remarkable Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator Coming to ...
Gizmodo - Remarkable Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator Coming to iPhone and Blackberry - sakhr
Gizmodo - Remarkable Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator Coming to iPhone and Blackberry - sakhr
feeds.gawker.com — Sakhr is a translation company with big clients like the U.S. Department of Defense and Homeland Security.... They specialize in English/Arabic translation, and this demo of their iPhone/Blackberry app (not publicly available) looks like the Holy Grail ... (more) Gizmodo - Remarkable Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator ...
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Remarkable Speech-to-Speech Voice Translator Coming to iPhone and Blackberry [Software]
Gizmodo — Sakhr is a translation company with big clients like the U.S. Department of Defense and Homeland Security. They specialize in English/Arabic translation, and this demo of their iPhone/Blackberry app (not publicly available) looks like the Holy Grail of translation software. You hold a button, say a phrase and the software captures the information through speech recognition. The text is then translated into either Arabic or English (in the cloud, we believe) and then read aloud so mispronunciation is not an issue. Of course, voice recognition is one of those fabled computer advancements that's parked in a perpetual ...

Sahkr iPhone App Does Real Time Speech-To-Speech Translations (video)
GadgetReview — Now this is pretty fly for a white guy.  Until recent most iPhone translation apps were limited to text input or a phrase dictionary.  Select the phrase and an audio bite would play.  But what about speech-to-speech translations?  Well, it’s coming, albeit to the military. Created by a company called Sakhr, their speech-to-speech translator iPhone app can translate English to Arabic and Arabic to English in real time.  The accuracy of the app, for lack of better words is remarkable and appears to have a very high accuracy rate, although I shouldn’t take the below video as a true testament since it isn’t real world testing. As ...

Speech Recognition iPhone App Translates Arabic On the Fly
textually.org — Speech technology is advancing quickly; even smartphones offer apps that let you speak commands and perform voice-activated searches. Now, a new app for iPhone and Blackberry can convert spoken Arabic into spoken English (and vice versa). The mobile app's speed of processing and accuracy is unprecedented for such a complex and different pair of languages. Gizmodo ...

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