Apparently, they already have real-time translator in their lab on test runs for mobile phones, and according to Barre, in some combinations of languages it works almost perfectly. Once the background noise is eliminated, speech recognition becomes much easier, so in a controlled environment, the translation is almost always accurate. Nevertheless, for the commercial use of this gadget we will most likely have to wait for several more years.

Interestingly, at the same time there is also the source that claims that Apple has a secret team in Boston which is working on improvements of speech recognition technology. Whether it is a new trend in the communications industry, or is just a coincidence, it remains to be seen.

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