The Science Behind Patent No. 9015032

Attention all monolingual wanderlusters: IBM Patent No. 9015032 is here to make overseas travel a whole lot easier. This cognitive language recognition system helps travelers maneuver through airports where their native tongue isn’t spoken. How? First by identifying the languages it “hears” from microphones placed throughout the airport, then by translating flight info into these languages for display and PA announcements. Could this mean the end of mad gate dashes from airport bars worldwide? Probably not. Or should we say, probablement pas, osoraku arimasen, wahrscheinlich nicht, probablemente….

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