每日听写|7.18(选)初级

初级7月18日（周二）BBC随时说各种语言 Jen: This could put us out of a job, Neil! Now come on, it must be time for a language-related quiz. 这款软件会让我们失去工作的，尼尔！好了，现在该问一个和语言相关的问题了。 Neil: Yes, that's exactly what we'll do now. I want to know, how many languages are there in the world? Is it: a) about 100b) about 1,000c) about 6,000 是的，接下来我们来问问题。我想知道，世界上有多少种语言，大约100种、1000种还是6000种？ Jen: Well, I think there are a lot but maybe not 6,000, so I'll go for b) about 1,000. 我觉得应该会有很多种不过应该到不了6千种，我选B。 Neil: OK, well we will find out, as ever, at the end of the programme. Back now to our app. 好的，和往常一样，我们会在节目最后再揭晓答案。回到语言软件的话题上。 Jen: This, of course, isn't the only instant translation technology in the world. 这并不是当今世界上唯一一种即时翻译技术。 Neil: No, Google have something similar, though it's less advanced than this Japanese app. Listen to the first part of a report from the BBC's correspondent, Richard Taylor. How does the Google technology work? 是的，谷歌也有类似的技术，虽然没有日本的应用程序智能。一起来听一段BBC记者理查·泰勒的报告，谷歌技术是如何工作的呢？ You simply talk into your smartphone. That's then sent to the server from Google, which does real-time voice recognition and then machine translation on it and then that data is sent back to your phone either as a script or, if you pay a little bit extra in terms of data charges, as a voice file. 你对着智能手机讲话时，手机将对话内容传送到谷歌的服务器，服务器开始进行实时语音识别，然后进行机器翻译， 之后你的手机会收到文本文件，如果你付些资料费的话，你会收到声音文件。