{"id":1235,"date":"2018-03-31T19:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T00:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2018-03-31T19:24:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T00:24:42","slug":"language-translation-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/03\/31\/language-translation-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Translation Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/translation-tech-makes-travel-easier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Soon, talking to strangers will be even easier&#8221;<\/a> is the title of a recent article in <em>Wired<\/em> magazine about language translation technology. Author David Pierce begins the article with a description of current technology that helps travelers navigate foreign locations. He continues with &#8220;as translation tech improves, though, the benefit will extend way beyond just helping you get around. When translation happens quickly and accurately enough to have a conversation that spans two languages and feels almost natural, we\u2019ll be able to experience places in an entirely new way.&#8221; Maybe the technology will evolve to better enable conversation between two people speaking the same language but using different dialects. For example, I was surprised by how many times I did not quite get what a British person was saying to me during my recent vacation to London. Eventually, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/farscape.wikia.com\/wiki\/Translator_microbe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">translator microbes<\/a>\u00a0will solve all of our problems :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Soon, talking to strangers will be even easier&#8221; is the title of a recent article in Wired magazine about language translation technology. Author David Pierce begins the article with a description of current technology that helps travelers navigate foreign locations. He continues with &#8220;as translation tech improves, though, the benefit will extend way beyond just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}