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Now, this sounds like every struggling language student’s dream...
这个故事听起来像是每一个为语言学习苦苦挣扎的学生的梦...
A piece of technology which could put an end to hours and hours of study…
一种科技可以结束数以小时计的研究...
It sounds like something from science fiction…
听起来像科幻小说。
A machine which allows you to speak any language in the world… instantly!
一台可以让你说世界上任何一种语言的机器...并且是立刻！
OK, well not quite, but we are talking about an app – a piece of software common on smartphones - developed in Japan.This app allows you to have conversations with another person speaking in a different language translated in real time – in other words, instantly.
好的，也不完全是这样，但是我们正在谈论的关于应用程序app——一种日本开发的在智能手机上很常见的软件。这个应用程序允许您和说其他语言的人对话，并且即时翻译，换句话说，同时的。
This could put us out of a job, Neil! Now come on, it must be time for a language-related quiz.
这可能会使我们丢了工作，Neil！好了，现在肯定是和语言相关的小测试时间。
Yes, that’s exactly what we’ll do now. I want to know, how many languages are there in the world? Is it:a) about 100b) about 1,000c) about 6,000
是的，这确实就是我们现在将要做的事。我想知道，世界上有多少种语言，大约100种大约1000种大约6000种
Well, I think there are a lot but maybe not 6,000, so I’ll go for b) about 1,000.
嗯，我觉得会有很多种，我选B。
OK, well we will find out, as ever, at the end of the programme. Back now to our app.
好的，节目最后我们看是否是正确的。回到我们正在讨论的应用程序这个话题上。
This, of course, isn’t the only instant translation technology in the world.
它不是当今世界上唯一的即时翻译技术。
No, Google have something similar, though it’s less advanced than this Japanese app. Listen to the first part of a report from the BBC’s correspondent, Richard Taylor. How does the Google technology work?
是的，谷歌有相似技术，虽然没有日本的这个应用程序智能。来听一段来自BBC记者Richard Taylor的报告，看谷歌技术如何起作用的？
You simply talk into your smartphone. That’s then sent to the server from Google, which does real-time voice recognition and then machine translation on it and then that data is sent back to your phone either as a script or, if you pay a little bit extra in terms of data charges, as a voice file.
你只是和智能手机对话。然后手机将对话内容传送给来自谷歌的服务器，这个服务器带有实时语音识别和机器翻译，之后数据被发送到你的手机上或者以文本的方式或者以声音文件的方式传送给你，前提是你根据数据大小多少付点费用。
He says when you talk into your smartphone, it’s sent to the server – a central computer which other computers get their information from.

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