The new Samsun Galaxy S4, which will be out by the end of this month, includes the S-Translator application, which captures words spoken in one language and reproduces them in another. It is also possible to use this app when sending an sms or an email. S-Translator works with ten languages, including French, Latin American Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and American English.
Is this the beginning of the end for human
translators? Are language specialists being threatened? Do you think, on the
contrary, that any language has much more complicated aspects only a human
translator can accurately reproduce in another language (e.g. humor, irony,
anger)?
Judge by yourselves: in the video below, recorded at the Galaxy S4
launch ceremony, a monolingual English backpacker in Shanghai is able to communicate
with a Mandarin speaker in order to get directions. The backpacker’s English
words are translated into Mandarin and vice versa:
No copyright infringement intended. For educational, non-commercial purposes.
Problem of these devices are its measures.
ReplyDeleteI tested a Galaxy note and finally didn´t buy it
due an insurmountable obstacle.
My pants or shirt pockets were not big enough.
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