Advice sought after:
I listen to and dictate BBC programs (podcasts) to deter and delay dementia. And oftentimes I come to words and phrases which I cannot catch. It would be appreciated if you can tell me what they are saying and also correct my incorrect catching in the attempted transcript.
Thanks in advance.
BBC Word of Mouth Talking to computers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014p8c
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It feels to me like we are living in a golden age of language technologies. Things feel, feel to me anyway, almost like a magic. What kinds of language technologies do you find self using, day by ay that is.
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Well, I'm, by myself, using translation software all the time just like you do, so as you mentioned that I'm a Spain correspondent and I'm reading Spanish newspapers online all the time.
And my Spanish is pretty good. I studied it at high school and I ???(1)??? decades ago but it ???(^^)???. So I speak good Spanish, but, like you, there are formalities and some technical terms that I'm not always sure about.
So there is a a little extension you can add your browser. The Google translation extension in my case, and you can just double click a word and it gives you a translation instantly. Don't have to go to the Google translation web page. Or you can even highlight passages, a phrase or a whole sentence and you get a translation right away. And I would say nine times out of ten it gives me exactly the meaning ???(2)???.
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And you can actually hold your phone up to a passage and effectively, I'm talking all technology, but it as you take a photograph or you're scanning it, and then back accounting your chosen language. Is that right?
0306
That's right, and you can even do it live. You don't even have to press the shutter button on your camera. You can just hover it in certain apps including Google's translate app that's doing two things at once. It's ???(3)??? scanning characters and doing optical character recognition just like when a book is scanned and digitized, essentially the same thing. And then it's taking that text that it finds and putting it through the translator.
I find this a little bit wonky. You know, you can move your phone ever so slightly and the translation would jump around and change slightly. But, I mean, think about it, it's a miracle that you ???(4)??? just whip out a camera and point it at the thing and have an instant translation without even pressing a button.
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