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Google is Working on Speech-to-Speech Translation for Android

In Douglas Adams’ humorous sci-fi novel series Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a special kind of fish is mentioned – the Babel Fish. When inserted into the ear, it translates any spoken language to whichever language the listener understands. It is a very nifty device, and now Google seeks to create something similar.

According to Times Online, Google is developing a speech-to-speech automated translator for Android phones. It’s essentially a combination of two of Google’s existing technologies; its online universal translator service, Google Translate, and its voice recognition system.

Google plans to make its Babel Fish a lot like a human translator; the software would analyze chunks of speech, and translate them in their entirety, rather than translating word for word. Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services, claims the technology could go live in a couple of years. “Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition, and that’s what we’re working on. If you look at the progress in machine translation and corresponding advances in voice recognition, there has been huge progress recently,” he says.

Anyone who’s used Google Translate knows that translations aren’t (and probably never will be) perfect, but they’re very helpful when you can’t understand a word of some foreign language. However, Google’s voice recognition also has issues of its own, and I fear that these two combined would produce a very high amount of errors. The Times also mentions the issue of different accents, a problem that Google plans to solve by making the software gradually learn the speaking habits of the phone’s owner.

Despite the big issues Google has to overcome to make this technology useful, if anyone can pull it off, Google can. The idea of being able to call someone who doesn’t speak your language, and have the conversation translated almost instantly, well, that’s one of those inventions that made Google the company it is today.

Tags: Google, machine translation, translation

German Pranksters Attach GPS Device to Google Street View Car [MAP]

This one will definitely put a smile on the faces of all those who think Google’s Street View service is invading their privacy: members of German Free Art & Technology group (F.A.T.) have noticed Google’s Street View car in Berlin and decided to attach a GPS device onto it and track its movement.

The result of their efforts can be seen on a large map, and although it doesn’t seem to show anything out of the ordinary – the Google Street View car seemed to be driving around Berlin as it should be, until they realized they’re tracked and removed the GPS device – but it was nice to be able to reverse the roles and snoop on Google, even for a short while.

Tags: Google, gps, street view

Don’t Have Money for a Real iPad? Cut One Out of Paper

Yeah, we know. Although experts have been congratulating Apple on how competitive the iPad prices are, when you actually have to part with 500 bucks or more (if you want 3G which is a must-have for such a device), it hurts.

There is a solution that won’t cost you a dime, though. It also won’t get you an iPad, but you can perhaps fool someone with poor eyesight you have one, at least for a second. Yes, we’re talking about a paper iPad.

To make one yourself, you’ll need these two PNG files: the front and the back. Print them, cut them out, and voila – your brand new paper iPad is ready to…well, it can’t really do anything except sit on your desk, but considering the price is zero, we won’t hold it against it.

Tags: diy, Fun, ipad, paper

 

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Will McGrouther

Music Co. - OpenSocial Development Opportunity

Senior Web Designer / Front End Progammer Play a leadership role in creating music web sites and online products that will help shape the digital future of the music industry. COMPANY Major Music…

Tagged: music, media, sharing, opensocial, developer

Started by Will McGrouther in General Discussion Jun. 10, 2009.

June Herold

NING developers in Northern Virginia, DC metro area?

Hi looking for ning developers to assist with customization of a large church social network. Please indicate if your interested and if you are available now or within the next few weeks. Also, pleas…

Tagged: developers, dc, washington, virginia, norther

Started by June Herold in General Discussion May. 27, 2009.

Jacob Gyllenstierna

Looking for OpenSocial developers 2 Replies

Looking to outsource 3-5 fairly simple OpenSocial apps. OpenSocial 0.8.1 compliant and possibly with backend running Ruby on Rails. Thanks.

Tagged: opensocial, rubyonrails, outsourcing, offshore, contractor

Started by Jacob Gyllenstierna in General Discussion. Last reply by Jacob Gyllenstierna May. 13, 2009.

Myslopes.com

Ski Holiday gadget (Myslopes.com)

Hi All, We just launched our Ski holiday gadget. You can use it on Myspace, Orkut, Hyves for now. More info is on: http://www.myslopes.com/ski-holiday-specials/opens love to hear some Opensocial-fl…

Tagged: weather, myslopes, hyves, myspace, opensocial

Started by Myslopes.com in Have you created an opensocial application? List it here. Feb. 28, 2009.

trina macdonald

Looking for Developers interested in Book Authoring 3 Replies

Hello all I am an Editor at Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall/SAMS Publishing developing books for programmers in the Web 2.0/Web Development area. I'm looking for developers who might be interested in a…

Started by trina macdonald in General Discussion. Last reply by trina macdonald Mar. 16, 2009.

Swapnil

Integration of Orkut with Mobile Application 1 Reply

I am creating a mobile application to integrate with orkut. I want a server that will use the APIs exposed by the orkut and render the content on mobile. I am looking for following help: 1. How my s…

Started by Swapnil in General Discussion. Last reply by Arunkumar May. 29, 2009.

randy

RSS feed for latest blog posts but include member photo and name

anyone there know how to pull latest blog member photos as an open social feed? specifically, an rss feed with: post title, member name, member photo (with link to profile) ordered by most recent.…

Started by randy in Application Requests Feb. 6, 2009.

ramesh

Integration friendly embeddable social app

I want to incorporate a social app as a section into my website where the signed-in users can use it (without needing a resign in like how ning wants it to be). I want some basic features like forum…

Started by ramesh in Application Requests Jan. 25, 2009.

Filipe Costa

Developers OpenSocial

Virtus TI - brazilian company is looking for developers familiar or with experience with OpenSocial applications.

Tagged: opensocial

Started by Filipe Costa in General Discussion Dec. 16, 2008.

GABRIEL OLIVEIRA

ESPECIAIS

LINDAS MUSICAS

Started by GABRIEL OLIVEIRA in General Discussion Nov. 27, 2008.

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Former EA, Yahoo Marketing Vet Mitali Pattnaik Appointed GM Of PlayFirst

We haven't heard much from PlayFirst since we covered the San Francisco-based casual gaming startup's last funding round back in December 2007, but that doesn't mean things aren't moving for the venture-backed company. Earlier this year, the startup inked a major deal with Big Fish Games and today it has announced that social game industry executive Mitali Pattnaik has joined PlayFirst as General Manager, Social Games.

New Tweetdeck Puts Twitter On Crack – Adds YouTube and Flickr

There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far. Increasingly it appears that Seesmic is heading towards trying to be a much more mainstream application, for anyone on any platform, from celebs to your non-tech friends. But for power Twitter users, Tweetdeck seems to be go-to app so far. Of course, all that can change, but that seems to be the landscape at the moment. Just now Tweetdeck has released the latest version of its desktop Air application, this one is v0.33. It's available right now as a manual download here. Existing Tweedeck users will get an auto upgrade in the next few days. For uber-Tweetdeck users (like social media experts, as we know) Tweetdeck can get pretty long as they plug in every search term they can think of to avert that client disaster (Eurostar, we're looking at you). So there are a bunch of new features which extend the app quite a bit and greatly enhance its speed of access to the Twitter firehouse.

The Filter Reboots As Recommendation Engine For Hire, Ex-Googler Doug Merrill Joins Board

Almost two years ago The Filter, a startup backed by Peter Gabriel, launched to bring better music and movie recommendations to consumers. The site got lost in the abundance of more popular music and movie sites out there, so about a year ago CEO David Maher Roberts decided to shift gears and start licensing his recommendation engine to other businesses. It was the right move. Today, the Filter powers recommendations for sites and devices with a combined reach of about 20 million people, with two more large media deals in the final stages of converting from a trail to a full license which will bring its total reach up to 85 million. The startup's revenues went from $150,000 in 2008 to about $1 million in 2009. "All that money came from licensing," says Roberts. "I think we get $2,000 from Google for advertising." Since November, the company has been "borderline breakeven." And it just added to its board of directors former Google engineering VP Doug Merrill, who left Google to briefly serve as president of EMI for a year.

Monday Morning Marketing Quarterback: Which Superbowl Ads Scored On The Web?

With the Super Bowl yesterday came the time-honored Super Bowl commercials, each costing $2.5 million for a 30-second spot.  Even Google got in on the game with its first ever spot receiving rave reviews (although the commercial wasn't new). But which commercials went beyond TV to score on the Web?  Reprise Media released a report that ranks Super Bowl advertisers based on the level of integration between their television commercials and presence on the web in terms of search and social media. According to Reprise's scorecard, Boost Mobile, HomeAway, E*Trade and Google were the marketing standouts out of last night's commercials. Reprise decreed that Boost Mobile and HomeAway, which were both first-time Super Bowl advertisers, had the best cross-channel promotion from the tube to the web. E*Trade and Google followed with compelling ad spots that encouraged users to look to the web for more information. Who fumbled?  The Pop Secret/Emerald Nuts, Prudential, Dodge Charger and all movie commercials had the least amount of cross-channel integration.

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Open Man

Network marketing teams

I have a horror story to tell you. I joined a network marketing company a few years back when I was just starting out and a friend of mine joined the same company but with another team. 6 months later he was making $10,000 a month and I was only making $4000 a month. It got worse he kept making more and I was struggling. Here is the craziest thing, I actually showed this buddy of mine how to… Continue

Posted by Open Man on February 1, 2010 at 8:41pm

Scott

Internet Marketing Consultant

In these tough times, it is difficult to market you business. Although all areas of business are struggling, online seems to be struggling the least.

The internet is a low cost way to marketing your product or company. It allows you the opportunity to get in front of a large audience. If you're looking for an online marketing consultant, the pool can be quite large. Experience is helpful, but the Internet is still qu… Continue

Posted by Scott on July 13, 2009 at 3:08pm

Euclides

A alegria do Senhor é nossa força.

A Alegria do Senhor é Nossa Força | Pr. Olavo Feijó

Neemias 8:18 - E, de dia em dia, Esdras leu no livro da lei de Deus, desde o primeiro dia até ao derradeiro; e celebraram a solenidade da festa sete dias, e no oitavo dia, houve uma assembléia solene, segundo o rito.

Percebendo quão longe estava dos ideais das Escrituras, o povo israelita sentiu grande tristeza. Neemias e Esdras, porém, chamaram a atenção de todos: “Não vos entristeçais, porque a alegria do Senhor é a vossa força” (Neemias 8:… Continue

Posted by Euclides on May 29, 2009 at 11:01am

Euclides

A Serviço do rei

Todos nós fazemos, dizemos ou pensamos coisas que são erradas. Isto é chamado de pecado, e nossos pecados nos separam de Deus.

A Bíblia diz "Pois todos pecaram e estão separados da glória de Deus..." (Romanos 3:23) Deus é perfeito e santo, e nossos pecados nos separam de Deus para sempre. A Bíblia diz "Pois o salário do pecado é a morte..." (Romanos 6:23) A boa noticia é que a mais de 2000 atrás,
3. Deus enviou Seu único Filho Jesus Cristo para morrer por nossos pecados.

Jesus e o Filho de Deu… Continue

Posted by Euclides on March 14, 2009 at 3:35am

Euclides

Iate Club Itanhaem SP.

Posted by Euclides on February 24, 2009 at 3:04pm

Euclides

Minha Cidade

Posted by Euclides on February 24, 2009 at 3:02pm

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Posted by mane on February 20, 2009 at 5:44pm

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palavras de fé

sasasaas

Posted by mane on February 20, 2009 at 5:29pm

Crystal Kauffman (LACO Founder)

Challege to all My Beloved Friends and Visitors

I am challenging each member to donate a blanket or small gifts for patients facing cancer. The gifts are given away to clinics once a month on the 28th, unless the date falls on a weekend. So far we have bless over 100 patients with our Day Of Hope Project.We serve children and adults, who are facing cancer of any type. Come by our website and learn more about this project. In addition check out what else we have built for you!

Humbly Yours,

Crystal K
Founder/President
http://laughatcancer.co… Continue

Posted by Crystal Kauffman (LACO Founder) on January 27, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

 

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