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Universal Translation

Alexa Foster

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“At IBM’s Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, the computer scientist, role-playing doctor, speaks Mandarin Chinese into a personal digital assistant. In a few seconds, a pleasant female voice emanating from a device asks in English, ‘What are your symptoms?’”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FJ6WdT-WoI

+Universal Translation

Yuginq Gao

An algorithmic model to translate complex languages between each other such as Arabic to Chinese and vice versa.

Help doctors communicate with patients

+Yuqing Gao

+Yuqing Gao cont’.

Shanghai, China

PhD in Electrical Engineering at Southeast University in Nanjing

Apple – commercial Mandarin to text speech recognition technology

IBM in 1995

Used hand-held translation devices to train U.S. soldiers in Iraq

+Food for Thought

Do you think a universal translation device would decrease people’s motivation to learn second languages?

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