With Translation Technology On Their Side, Humans Can Finally Lick the Language Barrier: “…a universal translator…is being tested in Iraq by DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — the legendary research and development works in Arlington [Virginia]. The machine interprets the spoken word. You talk in English. It repeats whatever you said in spoken Iraqi Arabic. It then awaits a spoken response from the Iraqi, and talks back to you in English… Independently, Google is deploying its strikingly successful Translate project. It instantly translates text among 41 languages from Bulgarian to Hindi with surprising felicity. The big question is how soon Google will release a voice version, making the world’s cellphones multilingual.”