Trust the folks at Google to shake the world once in a while, and one can be sure keeping its past track records in mind that it going to be a pleasant jolt. This time it’s Google Wave announced recently by the company.
Google Wave is going to be one of the most ambitious projects from the company. It will serve as a web based computing platform which would bring e-mail, social networking, instant messaging, and wiki together. Other utilities offered by Google Wave would be enabling a high degree of collaboration across the web, a huge number of extensions and automatic translations between around 40 languages.
From the perspective of the translation industry I believe it would be very helpful if the folks at Google add human translation option to Google Wave’s arsenal, as we all know that however sophisticated it might become, machine translation would always be inferior and limited compared to language translation done by professional human translators. I can imagine dedicated teams of human translators spread out all over the world working with Google Wave.
You too can be a part of Google Wave’s development by signing up at https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup and also do check out the video of the developer preview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ.
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One Comment
Wave will do real time verbal translations into any language - this can be done pretty much using existing technology.
I give it less than a year. 6 months. I’ve predicted it, someone just needs to put it together. Google Wave + Project Natal - think about it.