We weren't exactly surprised that Google has its own real-time translation project for the spoken word via smartphones, to answer Microsoft's strides in that realm, but it's how advanced things are that startles us. Android's Vice President Hugo Barra sat down for an interview, and disclosed that the hardware prototypes (read: Android phones) that are already in testing, have reached "near perfect" result, especially with some language pairs...Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-Now-real-time-speech-translation-with-close-to-100-accuracy-on-the-way_id45756
