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     • Babel Fish was a free Web -based machine translation service by Yahoo!. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator), to which queries were redirected.
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   What is Yahoo Babel Fish?

   • Yahoo! Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free Web -based multilingual machine translation service of Yahoo! site. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator ), to which queries were redirected.

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   Who invented the Babel Fish?

   • The Babel Fish is an invention of writer Douglas Adams, who used it in his series of books called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It is a small creature, whose existence the Guide calls "the oddest thing in the universe".

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   How did Arthur understand the Babel Fish?

   • From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , by Douglas Adams. Once he had the Babel Fish in his ear, Arthur understood perfectly. The Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation from every source but its host. It then excretes enegry in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said.

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   Why is the babel fish important?

   • "Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation." Oolon Colluphid used the Babel fish as the main theme of his best-selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up For God.

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   Does Babel Fish use statistical machine translation?

   • Babel Fish both use statistical machine translation techniques – although Yahoo!'s system is best described as a hybrid approach that makes heavy use of rules, as well as statistics. The statistical translation approach works by analysing parallel corpora – bodies of text that have already been translated from one language to another.

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   How does a babel fish live?

   • The Babel Fish lives on brainwave radiation from every source but its host. It then excretes enegry in the form of exactly the correct brainwaves needed by its host to understand what was just said. The Babel fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.

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   Yahoo! Babel Fish was a free Web-based machine translation service by Yahoo!. In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator (now Microsoft Translator), to which queries were redirected. Although Yahoo! has transitioned its Babel Fish translation services to Bing Translator, it did not sell its translation application to Microsoft outright.

4. www.translation-services-usa.com › articlesWhatever Happened to Babel Fish? A Brief History of Internet ...

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   Though seemingly out of nowhere, Babel Fish actually has a long history. Though the online service launched in 1997, it has its roots in SYSTRAN, a machine translation company founded in California in 1968 to help the U.S. government translate Russian texts to English.

5. www.bbc.co.uk › news › avIs the 'babel fish' now a reality? - BBC News

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   Mar 4, 2017 · Is the 'babel fish' now a reality? A world where language is no barrier to instant verbal communication could be a step closer after technology using an earpiece to translate speech was...

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7. www.theneweuropean.co.uk › brexit-news-tech-andHow close are we to making the Babel fish a reality?

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   Apr 3, 2021 · It stuck around until 2012 when it was replaced by Microsoft Bing’s translation service, but the Babel fish has lingered firmly in popular culture as shorthand for ‘the ultimate translation solution’.

8. medium.com › arrival-of-the-babel-fish-10354a486c8Arrival of the Babel Fish. In the very near future ... - Medium

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   Jul 2, 2019 · Now with the Babel fish they would be instantly subtitled, dubbed, translated in real time, on demand. Over time, even regional differences (American vs Australian) could be accounted for.

9. www.abc.net.au › news › 2016/10/17Douglas Adams' Babel fish translator concept close to reality ...

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   Oct 17, 2016 · In his classic 1978 novel Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, British author Douglas Adams wrote of a leech-like translator fish that could be put inside a person's ear and enable its host to understand every language in the known universe. Fast forward to 2016 and such a concept is no longer the realm of quirky science fiction but a near reality.

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    Nov 18, 2014 · Perhaps the most famous depiction is the Babel Fish, a surreal invention of the late novelist Douglas Adams, and the inspiration of the name of Yahoo!’s translation engine.