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A British doctor helping tsunami victims in Thailand wants to give advice to a patient. In the past, he?d tote along a translator; but today, he speaks into his PDA ? and in seconds, it?s translating into Thai aloud.

A soldier in Iraq needs to talk to the local warlord, who doesn?t speak a word of English. He issues his statement into a box in his hand, and it repeats to the Iraqi in Arabic. He responds in Arabic, and his words are likewise translated into English.

Sound fantastic? Not anymore. The recently birthed ?International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies? (InterACT) jointly hosted by the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon, and the Fakult?t f?r Informatik, Universit?t (TH), in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a facility...

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