[Edling] Augmented reality, automated translation, and the future of language rights

[Jodi Crandall]

Thanks, Dave.

This is fascinating.

I’m forwarding this to several people who will find it very interesting.

Jodi
> On Apr 25, 2017, at 6:32 AM, Dave Sayers <dave.sayers at cantab.net> wrote:
> 
> I thought this might be of interest to linguists of varying subdisciplinary flavours, both for teaching and research, hence the egregious cross-spamming.
> 
> I've just published a speculative article on the peer-reviewed website 'Research Blogging', considering what the future of human-machine integration might mean for the field of translation, and consequently for the politics of minority languages.
> 
> http://www.languageonthemove.com/will-technology-make-language-rights-obsolete/
> 
> Amusingly, just this morning, progress was reported already on one of my predictions, namely machines accurately mimicking people's voices. This could all be old news pretty quickly!
> 
> Enjoy - and of course, feel free to share far and wide!
> 
> I've linked this on Twitter as well, which you're more than welcome to retweet :)
> https://twitter.com/DaveJSayers/status/856813246828994560
> 
> Augmentedly yours,
> Dave
> 
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