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		einarvollset on July 20, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Couch potato voice recognition No, translate. For a number of countries, native tongue subtitles of English TV shows is the norm. They're usually pretty good. So what you would have is a way for the program to translate English to the native tongue on the fly.

lkozma on July 20, 2010 [–]

Ah, ok, I understand now. But I am not sure why that would be more efficient than transcribing it first, then translating it.

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