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Alkanadi (显示个人资料) 2016年1月11日下午6:59:55
https://youtu.be/HNSvgP0vUv8
This technology is really amazing. Does it work with Esperanto?
sudanglo (显示个人资料) 2016年1月12日下午1:31:52
Watch here
However, the idea that this will prompt people to learn foreign languages (or even Esperanto) seems dubious. Why make the effort when the technology makes shopping in a foreign supermarket so easy?
I think a thought experiment reveals all. Imagine that all foreign supermarkets had bilingual notices, signs and labels in the local language and English. Would this prompt the English speaking tourist to learn the local language (let alone Esperanto)?
Most TV's and other electronic gadgets sold in Europe come with the instructions in twenty or so languages. But I see no upswelling of learning of foreign languages as a result.
The real message here is that Esperanto needs to change its narrative. Rather than selling it as the international language or the solution to the Babel problem, we need to find another way.
Perhaps 'Esperanto the easiest foreign language', or 'Esperanto, it's educational'.
Miland (显示个人资料) 2016年1月12日下午1:38:33
Perhaps someone has already done it?
erinja (显示个人资料) 2016年1月12日下午1:49:48
Miland:If we have voice recognition apps that can translate voice to text, then we have the basis of an automatic interpreter: talk for sufficient time to deliver context to the computer, and it will speak out an automated translation in another language.That's been in development for years. Great for tourists, but then again most people aren't willing to spend days and days learning a language just for tourism. I can't imagine it working if you wanted to work in another country. It's like a deaf person carrying around a chalkboard rather than learning sign language. It works for someone only willing to put in minimal time into learning but to revolve your life around it, it's far too much effort.
Perhaps someone has already done it?
Matthieu (显示个人资料) 2016年1月12日下午2:20:26
Alkanadi:Sudangulo's worst nightmare is coming true:I'm pretty impressed by the text recognition and the replacement of text in pictures, but the translations are hardly "amazing". "Traduce texto vivir" and the Russian version of "question mark" are just nonsensical, word-for-word translations from English.
https://youtu.be/HNSvgP0vUv8
This technology is really amazing. Does it work with Esperanto?
Alkanadi (显示个人资料) 2016年1月12日下午2:43:04
sudanglo:Rather than selling it as the international language or the solution to the Babel problem, we need to find another way.How about, 'Esperanto: a tool to connect with people worldwide'
Perhaps 'Esperanto the easiest foreign language', or 'Esperanto, it's educational'.
Maybe, UEA and other groups should focus on poor countries that can't afford the internet or translation apps.
erinja (显示个人资料) 2016年1月12日下午5:19:46