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Whatsapp ist erneut gefordert
(WhatsApp is being challenged once more)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 19.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | translation, WhatsApp
Summary | There is a new rival for WhatsApp: the Swiss/Ukranian messaging app Drotr. Its main quality and advantage over WhatsApp is that it can do simultaneous written translations in 104 languages. It can simultaneously translate video conferences for 44 languages. Albeit a bit shaky, the translations are decent.
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Der Computer lernt Mundart
(The computer learns Swiss German)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone, translation
Summary | The SBB app should be updated so the users can just speak their destinations and they will verbally receive the transport information. The developers say that the voice recognition software should be able to understand most dialects of Swiss German despite never having been enhanced with a Swiss German vocabulary. Lots of it is similar enough to German so that the software can detect the connection or it otherwise reports words that it does not understand so that they can be manually entered. Users should be pleased because it is just nicer when one does not have to speak Standard German to one's smartphone.
Image Description | Image of a hand holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Facebook will Gedanken lesen, hat dafür aber noch keine Technologie
(Facebook wants to read minds but lacks the technology for it)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 21.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | brain, Facebook, research/study, translation
Summary | Facebook wants to read minds. A team of 60 researchers are working on technologies to make this possible. The goal is for users to be able to send a message through Facebook without even taking their smartphone out of their pockets. A further goal is for people to be able to send messages in a language they do not speak.
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