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Google is preparing new smartphone translator software that it say will be able to hear speech and translate it instantly. The software would take the information learned from the company’s text translation software, and voice recognition, a feature Google is putting in many smartphones. It would obviously be basic at first, analysing small segments of speech before translation, but Google believes it would soon be refined with many users, according to Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services. High speed “We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work [...]