Microsoft makes strides in direct speech translation, we hope to see it in Windows Phones (video)

2. jhp2025 posted on 09 Nov 2012, 03:19 0 0

this is what I've been waiting for since the first StarWars movie I've ever seen! no time to wait for it Bill...!

3. nbringer posted on 09 Nov 2012, 03:29 0 0

"when they serve you food that still looks like it's moving" - or looks like a hamburger...

4. rsxl5 posted on 09 Nov 2012, 05:06 0 0

XXI century breakthrough announcement 480p....

Well, I'm not native speaker of Chinese but I do speak Chinese for last 9 years and we still have very long way to go (despite the fact that Chinese grammatic is very in-complex (not like ie: French or Polish one),

From what I see part of the translation is not exactly the same (or as shown in a sentence below it's incorrect (7m23s)). It's understandable for me in both languages but due to the fact that I did a few languages (while younger) I always look for closest match to make sens. It's still word-copy translation thou.

ON VIDEO:
- 'I'm speaking in English and and hopefully you will hear me speaking Chinese in my own voice'
- '我是说英语,希望你能听我说中国人自​己的声音。'

Word 'Chinese' from English sentence was translated as a Chinese Person (中国人) instead of Chinese Language (华语 or other word describing language (they have a few of them)).

(IMO) Proper translation would be rather:
我是说英语，希望你会听到我说华语