People will speak in any language after five years

A new technology for the polyglots
Over recent years we have become tourists. And most of us have been damned language barrier. After all, one wants to have a heart of Tokyo with the Japanese in Beijing - the Chinese, in Rome - with the Italians. But it seems that we will soon forget about it and start an insurmountable barrier to talk at once ... all languages.
In any case, such a future, we promise to experts from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). They invented a new technology that allows computers to learn any language, displays automatic speech recognition to a new level, writes km.ru.
Norwegian researchers have shown that the reproduction of the human voice is the same mechanism in any language. Scientists based on phonetics, that is, the study of human speech sounds. They are also included in the speech, and the "system" of multiple languages, for example, the order of words in the formation of sentences.
The method, developed by Dr. Torbjörn Svendsen from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and his colleagues, including computer training ability to determine which parts of the speech organs are activated, based on the analysis of the pressure of sound waves recorded by a microphone.
True, the language recognition technology is quite limited in application; this development is only useful where multiple languages ​​simultaneously. Test version takes about 30-60 seconds to identify the language. This can be useful in cases where, for example, a person makes a presentation in one language and at the same time the author cites the other. The novelty will be available in five years.