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<blockquote data-quote="Dioltach" data-source="post: 4979906" data-attributes="member: 21843">When I started my career as a professional translator about twelve years ago, a lot of my colleagues were worried about the impact of machine translation on the profession. It soon became clear, though, that there's nothing to worry about at the moment. Language is too complex and contains too many subtleties and variations for the computers we have now to replace human translators. It's like asking a machine to think. Sure it may be possible some time in the future, but it will require a major breakthrough first.Another problem is speech recognition. I've spent a lot of time trying to attune my speech recognition software to my voice, and it's still nowhere near perfect. It's OK for simple words and commands, but anything like a sentence spoken at your normal speed of conversation generally gives hilarious results.Combine the two, and your DM won't even have to come up with any enemies for you to fight: you'll be arguing and fighting with your allies instead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dioltach, post: 4979906, member: 21843"] When I started my career as a professional translator about twelve years ago, a lot of my colleagues were worried about the impact of machine translation on the profession. It soon became clear, though, that there's nothing to worry about at the moment. Language is too complex and contains too many subtleties and variations for the computers we have now to replace human translators. It's like asking a machine to think. Sure it may be possible some time in the future, but it will require a major breakthrough first. Another problem is speech recognition. I've spent a lot of time trying to attune my speech recognition software to my voice, and it's still nowhere near perfect. It's OK for simple words and commands, but anything like a sentence spoken at your normal speed of conversation generally gives hilarious results. Combine the two, and your DM won't even have to come up with any enemies for you to fight: you'll be arguing and fighting with your allies instead. [/QUOTE]

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