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Technological Solutions To Military Language Barriers

One of the major issues for both thethey can be programmed by a local
American intelligence community and theinterpreter to fit different missions.
military has been the paucity ofThat is, if a competent interpreter can
professionals in their ranks who arebe located. The Defense Advanced
fluent in Arabic. Like any other majorResearch Projects Agency (DARPA) has
language, there are dialectic variationsspent $15 to $20 million a year in
within the language that make fluentgovernment funds over the past five
translation and understanding that muchyears developing the mobile translator
more difficult. One need only considertechnology, due to the shortage of
the vast dialectical differences inhumans with similar skills.
American English to begin to understandThere are many translation devices on
the kind of "nuance" that rigidlythe commercial market that work through
thinking machines will have to contentPalm Pilots and other handheld devices.
with.The type of usage the military is
Technologists among us are developingseeking, however, is a little more
equipment that can assist even the mostproactive. A platoon leader facing a
hopelessly monolingual in uniformvillage official doesn't have time to go
communicate with the citizens of thethrough a search process in order to
nation he or she is occupying. Thefind the correct phrase. On the other
United States Army is field testing ahand, these devices can't really be
hand-held voice translator deviceprogrammed with the nuances required to
developed by Integrated Waveget through a get-together designed to
Technologies.win the hearts and minds of the village
This device is already in use in otherelders.
parts of the world and is being used byOften the few Arabic-speaking soldiers
soldiers in the field in Iraq. Thewho did land in Iraq found that
device converts simple English commandsdifferences in dialect rendered their
into Iraqi Arabic or 15 other languages.knowledge unusable. Think of the working
When the soldier says a simple phrase --class inhabitants of the American Deep
for example, "keep kids back" - theSouth and British east London attempting
'voice response translator' (VRT)to communicate successfully. Both are
matches that command to a more complexspeaking "English," but it's highly
phrase in Arabic. In this case: "Keepunlikely either would understand the
your children back from us or we willother in anything but the broadest of
take action against you." Not exactly aterms. In January, President Bush
friendly warning and completely devoidannounced that the Pentagon will devote
of emotional content, nonetheless it'shundreds of millions of dollars over the
better than a warning shot.next five years to language training
A firm called Voxtech makes a similarand, perhaps as important, training in
device called the Phraselator. Voxtech'cultural awareness. In the meantime,
CEO says that one advantage of thesetechnology will have to fill in.
portable translation devices is that



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