From Geeks Are Sexy
Yet more technology (like these real tractor beams) that seems inspired by the wonderful Star Trek Universe. It seems Microsoft have started developing a Universal Translator-esque system that outputs translated text in real time…in the voice of the speaker. Obviously, speech-to-text recognition software isn't exactly brand new – Siri has become quite an established example (though she is, of course, one of many and not even the first of her kind). However, the