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Monday, October 31, 2005

Breakthrough next door

KurzweilAI.net, a technology breakthrough newsite I visit, has reported an interesting discovery next door (CMU):

Tribune-Review, October 28, 2005

Carnegie Mellon University and German scientists unveiled technology on Thursday that makes it possible to speak one language, yet be understood in another.

In a demonstration, sensors captured electrical signals from facial muscles; a computer recognized the words, translated them, displayed them on a screen, and spoke them in both languages.

"Translation goggles" also displayed the translated words on a miniature virtual screen on eyeglasses. And small ultrasound speakers delivered a narrow beam of sound in a foreign language to one person, while others nearby heard the same words in the language they were spoken.


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