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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I'm looking for an app that will identify spoken language. I have iTranslate, which works well...when you know which language is being spoken. But, I'd like one that identifies the language. Then I can worry about translating it. Any thoughts? ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | ||
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google translate can detect language for text, but not speech. | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
I have used Google Translate for "speech to text" but need to use the Chrome browser. Select the language, ie Spanish, then click the microphone button. Google Translate "speech to text" does not work in the Firefox browser. https://translate.google.com/ Use the language drop down arrow ... there are many, many languages to chose from. Works perfect for me ... *Update : I just now noticed that you would like the spoken language identified without having to select the language. I am not sure yet about that. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
Yeah. Not so concerned with translating a specific language, just identifying which language it is. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Left-Handed, NOT Left-Winged! |
Which languages do you want to identify? | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
I have no idea, but I used to work in a medical field that often required a Translator. I've had to use this service before. I'd be notified before hand as to what language they spoke so I could call and get a translator lined up. We were to call a service and they would get ahold of one of their translators (and they could be literally anywhere) and often times had to make some sort of appointment to get both parties lined up to do this (patient and translator and the service, and me). I know that doesn't answer your question, but I recall that you work in a hospital and they will have this resource available, perhaps you could call the Translating Company and inquire with them. They may have a way you can identify the language first before doing anything needed. This is an interesting idea, I think an APP would be great. FWIW there are some amusing and interesting YouTube videos of some person who is trying to identify what language is being spoken, without being able to see the person to get some sort of idea what race they may be and what language they might be speaking. It really makes you realize how varied our world is, and the many hundreds or more languages are spoken. Some are quite obscure and very few people speak it. I recall one patient we had that moved to America for medical care reasons and there were only a handful of people, less than 100, living in America that spoke it. It was a real bitch to get a translator lined up. And the crazy thing is the patient and family made no effort to learn English. . | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
A little more detail: I'm thinking of using it while scanning the Ham bands. The vast majority of transmissions that I hear are in English, a few Spanish, and some that I cannot identify. If one can discern the callsigns, then you can pretty much guess the country/language, but this can be difficult because not every language pronounces K as "kay", and not every operator enunciates the phonetic alphabet correctly, and nowadays the phonetic alphabet is being supplanted with other words...Sugar for Sierra, for example. If a guy had an app that you could just hold up to the speaker and identify the language, well...that would be great and that's what I'm looking for. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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"Sugar" is part of the old phonetic alphabet -- Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy . . . Sometime around mid 20th century the U.S. military, Air Traffic Control, etc. switched to the newer one -- Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo . . . הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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https://www.nato.int/cps/en/na...lassified_136216.htm In the 1920s, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) produced the first phonetic alphabet to be recognized internationally. It featured names of cities across the globe. Amsterdam, Baltimore, Casablanca, Denmark, Edison, Florida, Gallipoli, Havana, Italia, Jerusalem, Kilogramme, Liverpool, Madagascar, New York, Oslo, Paris, Quebec, Roma, Santiago, Tripoli, Uppsala, Valencia, Washington, Xanthippe, Yokohama, Zurich. On the military side, the United States adopted a Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet, called the Able Baker alphabet after the first two code words, across all of its military branches in 1941. Two years later, the British Royal Air Force decided to use the Able Baker alphabet as well. Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox, George, How, Item, Jig, King, Love, Mike, Nan, Oboe, Peter, Queen, Roger, Sugar, Tare, Uncle, Victor, William, X-ray, Yoke, Zebra A common criticism of these alphabets was that they were rather English in composition. A new version incorporating sounds common to English, French, and Spanish was proposed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and came into effect on 1 November 1951 for civil aviation only. It is similar to the one used today. Alfa, Bravo, Coca, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Gold, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Metro, Nectar, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Union, Victor, Whiskey, eXtra, Yankee, Zulu On 21 February 1956, Member States were advised “that the new Phonetic Alphabet is to be made effective in NATO 1 March 1956” (see declassified document from the NATO Archives: SGM-0156-56). The ITU formally adopted it a few years later making it the established universal phonetic alphabet governing all military, civilian and amateur radio communications. As it was NATO Allies who had spearheaded the final revision, it became known from that point on as the NATO Alphabet. ALFA, BRAVO, CHARLIE, DELTA, ECHO, FOXTROT, GOLF, HOTEL, INDIA, JULIETT, KILO, LIMA, MIKE, NOVEMBER, OSCAR, PAPA, QUEBEC, ROMEO, SIERRA, TANGO, UNIFORM, VICTOR, WHISKEY, X-RAY, YANKEE, ZULU | |||
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Things like this are why I frequent here. That, and the free taco tuesdays... ________________________________________________ "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." -Dr. Adrian Rogers | |||
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A search online suggests that Google Translate is one of many such applications. There is a microphone icon on Google Translate that is supposedly able to listen and detect the language, then translate it. ------- Trying to simplify my life... | |||
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You notice that the microphone icon is grayed-out when “detect language” is selected. Star Trek says the Universal Translator won’t be invented until the late 22nd century.  | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
You overlooked the first sentence of my reply ...
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| Left-Handed, NOT Left-Winged! |
Actually I met one already. In a bar in Daegu, South Korea I met this cute Vietnamese grad student that was studying Korean. She also spoke English, Mandarin, Japanese, and of course Vietnamese. Would be really good not to have to rely on the business partner's translators and have our own instead. I do think that in 10 years or so, smartphones will be powerful enough to do real time voice translation from any major language to any other major language. As for the OP - Google Translate app does need you to select the language before using the mic for voice translation, and so does the website - I just checked. I can usually identify the major languages by hearing them - English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog. Cantonese is something I haven't been around enough to really know how it sounds as compared to Mandarin. But most of this comes from hearing the languages often either in person or in movies. The various Eastern European and Nordic languages are more difficult because I'm not familiar with how they sound specifically. Same goes for some of the other Southeast Asian languages. And all Indian dialects plus Hindi sound pretty much the same to me. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
Yeah, the main romance languages I can usually get...save Portuguese, that's a goofy one. But, usually, by the time I can identify the language and dial it up on iTranslate, the comms are over.  Here's another million dollar idea for an enterprising fella.... ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Lead slingin' Parrot Head  |
Some of the online ads that I get are for products or services that actually interest me, while others serve as inspirations for yet others that I think about developing, or at least in how they are being marketed...so earlier this year I created a folder on my laptop desktop to save some of these ads. One of the products that was advertised last Spring on YouTube was the Muama Enence, which is billed as a powerful 2-way translator. Supposedly it can translate 36 different languages in real time. Press a button and record what you want to say in English, then hold it out to the person speaking a different language and release the button and it will translate what you said into their language. Reverse the process when they are replying to you. I have zero experience with the company or product, don't know what the device limitations are, and it's not exactly what you're looking for...but maybe it will work for your needs? Muama two-way real time translator
When I first saw the ad for the gizmo linked above, my first thought was of the Star Trek Universal Translator. | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
Something I just learned using Google Translate (must use the Chrome browser) it identifies a spoken language. I set the translate language to both English - English, press the microphone button and spoke a short foreign language phrase, Google translator spelled out the foreign words (both sides)and at the bottom of the left box identified the language. Would need to record a short phrase trying to identify then play back using Google translator. Am going to explore this further with other languages once I find my little tape recorder. | |||
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I just tried the translate app native to my iPhone. I chose French as the language from which to translate. I spoke my best high school French, and the translated words were woefully incorrect. I downloaded the Google translate app, and tried again. Worked flawlessly. I changed the incoming language to Spanish and spoke French again. No luck. ------- Trying to simplify my life... | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
Maybe keep a recorder handy to tape the conversation they play back parts of it into something like Google Translate. | |||
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