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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
IBM’s MASTOR translates like no other
IBM Research has an incredible translation software product dubbed MASTOR (The Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator). The service has seen rave reviews for both accuracy and ease of use. At present, it works in both Arabic and Mandarin but the translation engine is very interesting. Rather than attempting a word by word translation, the engine translates phrases and […]
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
IBM to Make Dumbed-Down Chip for a Portable Gamecube?
Per Joystix.com, a rumor was posted for a few minutes this morning that IBM was in the process of shrinking the Wii’s Broadway chip for a “future Nintendo handheld — presumably one that plays Gamecube discs.”
He acknowledges that the rumor may be false, but rumors or kind of fun regardless.
Tags:broadway chip, Gamecube, ibm, wii