SRI International's IraqComm Speech Translator

SRI's IraqComm technology is a ruggedized, mobile, spontaneous translation system. It performs bidirectional, speech-to-speech machine translation between English and colloquial Iraqi Arabic. Developed under DARPA funding, IraqComm devices have been deployed to U.S. forces in Iraq. More info at www.iraqcomm.com or www.sri.com

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Science & Technology

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• SRI
• International
• iraqcomm
• iraq
• army
• darpa
• speech
• technology
• translation
• computer

[R0FLtaco]

@Ou8y2k2 its still pretty impressive to know that we have this technology

[Ou8y2k2]

This was posted nearly three years ago. It's probably a lot better now.

[richerite]

Might be useful in life and death situations, interrogations, interviews etc. But it surely wont win Iraqi hearts though. You'd have to take the trouble to learn the language for that to happen.

[wecaan]

@ToListen haha, yes it does say give him 500 tablets. The computer is trying to kill his son.

[DavithRedway]

Watching this is like it must have been when people saw the first computers or cell phones, it's just a software being developed, but that in the matter of a few years will become excellent, sophisticated, and really useful.

[jeje818]

IT DID LOOOOOOOL

[ToListen]

At the end, where the computer is translating "give him three of these tablets every four hours", I think the computer translated it into "500" tablets. It sounded like "khemis meet"-am I wrong?

[ToListen]

Wow. Is this being used in Iraq today?