"Google has a 'near perfect' universal translator -- for Portuguese, at least"

[TopWargamer]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57595825-1/google-has-a-near-perfect-universal-translator-for-portuguese-at-least/?ttag=fbwp'>Source (CNET)

 

Hopefully Google can get "near perfect" language translations for all languages.

 

Barra told the U.K. Times that "several years" from now, he envisions devices (likely Android phones or something similar) that allow people to travel around the globe without having to be concerned about language barriers. Barra also spoke of the ability for calls to be translated from one language to another in real time, so that a person on one end of the call might speak in English, and that speech would then be instantly translated into Portuguese for the person listening on the other end in Sao Paulo.

[Alcatraz]

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Universal_translator

 

The first steps have been taken.