Darpa Looks to Build Real-Life C3P0 -- The Danger RoomRight now, troops trying to listen in on enemy chatter rely on a convoluted process. They tune into insurgency radio frequencies, then hand the radio over to local interpreters, who translate the dialogues. It’s a sloppy process, prone to garbled words and missed phrases.
What troops really need is a machine that can pick out voices from the noise, understand and translate all kinds of different languages, and then identify the voice from a hit list of “wanted speakers.” In other words, a real-life version of Star Wars protocol droid C3PO, fluent “in over 6 million forms of communication.”
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My Comment: Language is always a problem for any army on the move .... but the software and technology that is needed to develop something like a "C3P0" .... wow.
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