Real Time Voice Translator Smashes Down Language Barriers

While it is a step in real time translation, how does it deal with the translation of the idea not just the individual words themselves? Many languages have completely different sentence structure (i.e. English and Japanese). Translating only the words will leave an incoherenet sentence in the other language.

Pardon?

You're correct, of course. I frequently engage in text conversations using various online translators. It takes a lot of careful parsing to get even pidgin sentences to be understandable. Even then it usually requires the use of intuition to decipher the meaning behind the words. That, coupled with dodgy speech recognition, seems to be a pretty high hill to climb. But still, I'd be thrilled if they pull it off and wish them luck trying.

I am often required to travel and interact internationally and am all for a technological solution to communciation challenges.

Shhhh don't tell my wife as she is a translator (Japan/English) .