Google leveraged an AI event in San Francisco to talk about the future of Google Translate. The firm demonstrated a long-awaited feature: transcription and translation of conversations in real time. According to Google, this feature will be implemented on Android “soon” without further details.
Concretely, when you find yourself in the middle of a conversation, a lecture, or hear a conversation in another language, it becomes possible to hold your smartphone in your hand and directly see a transcription of everything said in your language. Transcription does not occur locally – an internet connection is required.
Coming soon on Android
Google explains that real-time voice translation is indeed much more complex than translating text. Our colleagues at The Verge also point out that decoding audio files won’t work at first. Although it is still possible to record a conversation and play it on an external source and approach the smartphone.
Google goes even further to improve the quality of the final translation. The AI is trained to continually evaluate the meaning of the sentence as a whole and context. So the AI goes so far as to add punctuation and correct some word choices that don’t make sense in the context of the sentence.
At this stage, the transcription thus offers an “accurate estimate” of what was said, according to Google. The firm emphasizes that the models will become more accurate over time.
Source : Boundary
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