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Klingon Voice Translator for CES 2008
- From: "Robert Palmquist" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Klingon Voice Translator for CES 2008
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:05:23 -0600
- Cc: "Brian Wheeler" <[email protected]>, "Sean Lanahan" <[email protected]>
- Thread-index: Acdk0ewmtbHVWLfQQjy94KjzbJBc5wAA+dDA
- Thread-topic: Klingon Voice Translator for CES 2008
Not sure if I'm stomping on any etiquette rules here -- I apologize if I am. I just wanted to throw this out to the group. My company has developed a suite of products for instant language translation. As part of the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES - January 2008 in Las Vegas), we'd like to include Klingon as one of our supported languages. We'll be doing this in partnership with the Hilton Hotel's "Star Trek - The Experience," (see http://www.startrekexp.com/) for more info). We'll have a Press Event at the Hilton, plus have the "Experience" personnel demo products in our booth during CES. In terms of copyrights and such, this is meant to be a publicity event versus a product that we'll sell on the market. If we can get copyright permission, we'll give away the software to anyone that's interested, if not, then it'll just be for demonstrations and such. If you're interested in helping out on the project, there are two items we'd need:
(1) We have a database of about 500 phrases that we need translated, plus a voice recording of someone speaking the phrase. All told, it's around 4000 words and we pay 7 cents per word. One person does not have to translate all the phrases, we can split them up. These are general phrases that a tourist would state.
(2) We'd like to have any source-target data that currently exists: source being English words or phrases, and the target being the Klingon translation. This can be from the Dilbert strips, the bible, or any other source. We'll use it to create a statistical-based engine -- the more data the better the engine will be.
With that, we could come up with a basic English <> Klingon system. If you're interested, please let me know. Again, we're talking about making this happen by January of next year, so there's quite a bit of time to put it all together.
Thanks,
-- Robert
Robert Palmquist
SpeechGear, Inc.
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