Want to learn a foreign language, buy a phone

• Google is developing software which combines current technologies which would allow for foreign language translations over the phone in real time.
• There is already Google Translate for translating written text, and a voice recognition system for conducting web searches from spoken commands, so it's only a matter of time before a combination of the two is optimized to create a 'phone interpreter'.
• A giant leap for universal communication or a death wish for foreign language? Only time will tell.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article7017831.ece