{science.news} Language barrier lifted
USC TEAM CREATES RUDIMENTARY VOICE-TO-VOICE TRANSLATOR FOR MEDICINE
Researchers at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering have created a way to translate a physician's spoken English into spoken Persian, and patients' spoken Persian into spoken English. The preliminary system, created using actual English-Persian dialogue between doctors and patients, uses a laptop computer and requires users to recognize its limits and weaknesses, and work within them. Researchers hope a version of their Transonics Spoken Dialog Translator system will be ready for use in emergency rooms and ambulances within in two years. Read more about it here.
Source: WHAT'S NEW @ IEEE IN COMPUTING, VOL. 6, NO. 7, JULY 2005.
Researchers at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering have created a way to translate a physician's spoken English into spoken Persian, and patients' spoken Persian into spoken English. The preliminary system, created using actual English-Persian dialogue between doctors and patients, uses a laptop computer and requires users to recognize its limits and weaknesses, and work within them. Researchers hope a version of their Transonics Spoken Dialog Translator system will be ready for use in emergency rooms and ambulances within in two years. Read more about it here.
Source: WHAT'S NEW @ IEEE IN COMPUTING, VOL. 6, NO. 7, JULY 2005.
posted by Azad at
3:22 PM
4 Comments:
commmon! I never trust any computer for that, mind your own business would you?
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Momentary Laps of VIsin, At
7/20/2005 5:15 PM
It's only a translator! The computer doesn't diagnose or anything for a new MD to get offended :P
Most probably, it is meant to help the Persian speaking senior citizens that reside in LA.
By
Azad, At
7/20/2005 5:55 PM
So it won't help me? Too bad.
By
Kommisto, At
7/21/2005 10:52 PM
No 'Veh, it won't help you. Hey, the funny thing is that no one in their research team is even Iranian! It shows how much emergency rooms are in trouble overthere.
By
Azad, At
7/21/2005 11:11 PM
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