From: Martin Ling (martin@nodezero.org.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 05:10:37 MDT
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:17:00PM -0700, Spike Jones wrote:
> > Dan Fabulich Saw a link to this on Slashdot:
> > >
> > > http://www.interlingua.com
> >
> > [Adrian Tymes] can kind of understand it, because I already speak a
> > language
> > descended from Latin. I doubt that, say, someone who only speaks
> > Japanese or Chinese would find it as easy...
>
> With the speech recognition and synthesis software in its *current* state,
> which is not perfect but pretty good, it is clear that there is no longer
> any
> need for people to learn languages. Rather they will buy them. Wearable
> computer, going abroad? Pop in the local language module, speak into it,
> it translates, the other yahoo has one as well, does the same for you.
> spike
And the best part of all is that *no-one* will be able to resist
marketing the thing with some kind of fish connection <g>.
Martin
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