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Poll: Have you ever seen anyone using a “Translation Earpiece”?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 09:43
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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No idea what that is... Aug 19

I had to google it...

Rocio Barrientos
Wolfgang Schoene
Angie Garbarino
expressisverbis
 
Denis Fesik
Denis Fesik
Local time: 11:43
English to Russian
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No, and I wouldn't want to have one Aug 19

My understanding is that such things are only good for basic stuff like handling easy conversations with people who speak a language you don't understand at all. If you're a professional interpreter, this gadget won't help you: instead of doing your job of analyzing what the speaker is saying and coming up with adequate translations, you'll be listening to translations produced by a thing with no brain, comparing them with what you heard from the speaker, and trying to figure out how much you sh... See more
My understanding is that such things are only good for basic stuff like handling easy conversations with people who speak a language you don't understand at all. If you're a professional interpreter, this gadget won't help you: instead of doing your job of analyzing what the speaker is saying and coming up with adequate translations, you'll be listening to translations produced by a thing with no brain, comparing them with what you heard from the speaker, and trying to figure out how much you should borrow from the machine output. Same work, only more complicated. Basic tasks like grocery shopping in Vietnam can be done with a mobile, no need to get an earpiece ▲ Collapse
 
Edith van der Have
Edith van der Have
Netherlands
Local time: 10:43
Member (2016)
English to Dutch
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A fish in your ear ... Aug 20

... can't you just do that with a smartphone app?

Jorge Payan
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 10:43
Member (2020)
English to German
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No Aug 20

I wasn't even aware those things existed. Just trying to imagine the amounts of inane babble they would produce is giving me headaches.

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expressisverbis
Liena Vijupe
Elena Mordenti
Kay Denney
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Lingua 5B
Daryo
 
Matthias Brombach
Matthias Brombach  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 10:43
Member (2007)
Dutch to German
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No... Aug 20

...but sometimes I have the feeling that those devices are responsible for a lot of patent translations I tried to study for research purposes.
 


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