Let the voice recognition battle begin! Siri’s already thrown the primary punch within the soon-to-be dicey (albeit very consumer friendly) voice service wars, but don’t count Google out just yet. The oldsters over at Mountain View are doing their best to strike back, adding extra functionality to the Google Translate app for Android . So, what’s new during this version 2.2 upgrade? The company’s expanded the app’s previously limited speech-to-speech repertoire with support for one more 12 languages, accessible via the alpha-tagged Conversation Mode . And to forestall you from any awkward (and potentially hilarious) moments of unintended translation, there’s now a post-edit ability to maintain those two-way foreign exchanges PG. Alright, so it isn’t quite the hands-free, HAL-like cyber assistant update we need it to be, but there’s always Ice Cream Sandwich for that — we are hoping. Meanwhile, go ahead and hit up the source below to check out the experimental wares for yourself or take a look at a video demo of Conversation Mode after the break.
Everything Everywhere promises ‘small-scale LTE launch’ in UK by the top of 2012
ASUS MWC teaser video hints at possible hi-res tablet display?
