In news dated October 12th, 2006 IBM announced that the US Army will use its new speech-to-speech translation software in Iraq to support troops on the ground. The difference with this speech recognition software is that it can process and translate free speech instead of predefined sentences. This opens up great opportunities, and could change the way people communicate if the technology is really proven to be efficient. The software is also available to translate between English and Mandarin... not a bad idea with the Olympic games coming up. IBM has a demo video of this on its Web site.
It would be interesting to see the system in real and play with it. The demo only includes very simple sentences that I guess any recognition software could process. Pretty exciting anyway to see that finally this type of software is commercially viable... at least for the US Army.
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