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Re:In-Ear Device That Translates Foreign Languages in Real Time by macco on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:58PM (#11725907)
Realtime is not possible (right now). You allways have to wait for the voice recognition and then you translate.

In real life, when you listen to a person, you do it simultaneous and, even more important, you anticipate what the other person will say. Right now machines can't do that - they even don't come near that.

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Re:In-Ear Device That Translates Foreign Languages in Real Time by laumars on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:44AM (#11729220)
The promo video wasn't true real time either though. They just has the translate services running after each speech had concluded. So I think by "real time" they just mean "automatically".
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