translation technology

Filed in archive Technology on January 20, 2004

Wired displays a nice piece of technology for instant voice translation. Translators may sit anywhere in the world, as the translation is streamed digitally to and from them.

"This is the first time we have used such an innovative free-share on such a large scale," said Sophie Gosselin, a member of Nomad, the organization that created the translation software. "And because all the speeches and their translations are going through our computers, we are going to be able to archive all of them. This means we will be able to put it up on the WSF's site to be shared with everyone who was not able to attend now, taking the forum to hundreds of thousands of people."

Another interesting service in this area is 24Translatethat translates documents distributed across all times zones with more than 900 freelance translators.