Google came out with a new Translate app today that has a cool feature where two people can have a conversation in different languages and the app acts as the translator. So person #1 speaks in English and the app translates into, say, Chinese. Then person #2 speaks in Chinese and the app translates into English.
I thought we’d have some fun with Maile and try it out – she’d speak Chinese, I’d speak English.
As you can see, we had a little trouble from the start. Either Maile really doesn’t know Chinese and this whole thing is a farce – or perhaps Google’s technology just can’t understand her high-pitched voice. Or maybe she was just goofing too much. Any way you slice it, the app had some trouble with Maile Girl’s Chinese…
And the difficulty absolutely slayed Maile…
(Click here for video #1.)
(Click here for video #2.)
(Click here for video #3.)
