On: What Will the World Speak in 2115?

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Even up through 2008, most people thought it was going to happen by 2015!

And here it is in 2014:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/skype-...

And the comments include "Google has been doing this for ages".

Siri, Cortana, Google Now, all have speech recognition. Google and Microsoft have translation engines. Microsoft and WordLens (and Google?) have live image OCR and translation.

It's no Star Trek Universal Translator, but it's a thing and it exists.

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That's not the same thing as "high-quality machine translation".

Those are some lofty claims about Skype Translate, but it's not putting human translators out of business.