With the advancement of translation and interpretation technology, how concerned do translators and interpreters actually need to be? Is the robot-controlled future upon us?? Here’s my take on Amazon Echo’s new Alexa Live Translation feature/skill, and how I believe we’re still in the green zone.
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Dec 16, 2020
Amazon Echo’s new Alexa Live Translation feature: friend or foe to translators?
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Loie Favre
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As far as I know, Google Translate always uses English for all translations. For example: If you want to translate from Spanish into Chinese, it will translate first into English and then into Chinese.
Do you know if Amazon Echo will directly translate between non-English languages?
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