If you think about it, itd be slightly inaccurate to say that phones let people all over the world communicate with each other current tech just transmits sounds, not their significance.

But Googles looking to knock down language barriers with devices that will perform translations on the fly.This isnt some poorly sourced rumor or random conspiracy theory. Chris Gourlay interviewed Franz Och, Googles head of translation services, and Och said, We think speechtospeech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years time.Incredible as that might seem, the building blocks are already in place.