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By Chance Kinney – With trade barriers on their way out (for better or worse), making a business competitive globally is no longer advantageous — it’s necessary.
And until we have Matrix-like machines to upload foreign languages directly into our brains, that’s going to mean that eventually, you’re going to have to communicate with someone who speaks a language you don’t know.
That’s why translation has become the latest focus of tech — Google Translate is constantly being improved, while Skype is continuing to roll out real-time translation during voice chats.
Xerox is now stepping in with their own services, and for once, the human translators and interpreters of the world can breathe a sigh of relief.
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