Translators and Linguists

I want to do a paper presentation and want to know how a speech recognisation and translation system works. And also guide me in writing the abstract and the paper.

Machine translation is still at a pretty basic state. If you want to have fun some time, try Babelfish or other translation site and translate something from one language to another and then back. Or for real giggles, translate to a third language before returning to the first.

Translation is a very, very difficult problem.

It is also a very large topic. You are going to have to select some more specific piece of it to report on.

Speech recognition has come along better than translation. One interesting aspect of speech recognition that you might consider for your report is dynamic time warping, a method used to stretch or shrink utterances to match patterns for recognition. Two people could say the same sentence – or even the same word – and one might say it much more slowly than the other. How do you take those two different inputs and match them both to the same target pattern? That’s where dynamic time warping comes in (and "dynamic time warping" just sounds cool, too).

Whether you report on speech recognition or translation, I think you would do well to restrict your topic much more. Either that, or present only a broad overview of the challenges presented by these fields of study.

I had a question removed off the Yahoo French site because it was in English so I need to translate in future
Thank you Gallogrotte
Thanks both of you. Pity I can’t give you both best answer so will leave this to the vote

http://www.freetranslation.com/

its basic but it works good luck

I really need it now please help me!!!

If you are looking for a program that will translate full text, there is no such thing that will do it correctly (grammar rules vary widely between one language and another.)

There are many, free, online bilingual dictionaries however, that are great for word-per-word translations. Just type:
f"ree online english/(whatever language) dictionary"
in your search engine and you’ll see your choices.

I just want to be able to translate english to spoken japanese instead of the written like idiot to baka

www.freetranslation.com

I want to be a translator when I am older. What language should I learn in order to make the most money? Do you know how much I would make? Thanks!

Depends on where you live and what is the most common second language in your area. Be aware that people who were *raised* bilingual are heavily favored in the industry and if you still haven’t even learned a second language you may be fighting for work.

I do written English to Spanish translation for a local organization and I earn $35 an hour. I don’t know how that compares in the great scheme of things, because it’s a second, part-time job for me. Hopefully you realize already the difference between "translation" and "interpreting"… translation is always written, interpreting is always spoken.

Good luck!

At times our friends abroad write to us in French, German, Etc., languages or they have their sites in such languages that are not in English.
So, if we have a translator software in to
English in the Yahoo toolbar itself it would be very handy.

Click on the green plus symbol at the end of the toolbar.

Click on the "Add Apps" tab at the top.

Add the application marked "Translate Pate" by clicking on the "Add" at the top of the application. The Icon looks a bit like a goldfish to me! This translates pages into English.

Click on "I’m Done" at the bottom when you have finished.

I need some Spanish and Japanese translator, but every time I find it, The online Japanese translator becomes Japanese word, like
"smart" =賢いです.
But I need "smart" word in abc, not Japanese word. Where I can find it?

For Japanese you’ll be hard pressed to find a reliable dictionary to translate in romanised characters. (That’s the ABC you want it in) In my sources I have a few listed, but these will only translate words, not entire sentences. Note that these are not infallible, and will only translate to and from English. If you manage to find any others let me know. I hate having to use two or three to get some odd word into a language I know it in.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Um I hate to have to point this out mate, but if you just speak english, like we do, we’ll probably get your meaning!
By the way, not as many people use the stereotypical slang that you hear we use all the time as you think!

learn sign language then translate it

i knew one before but i lost it when i closed the window. i can’t remember what it’s called or anything.

I don’t know one "as you type", but if you go to www.dictionary.com and simply click on the ‘translator’ tab, that will help you. It has a lot of different translations, and all you have to do is click the little button and translate it. It works.