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The
say they are at the early
of being able to machine-translate
someone says. The software used in their
matched features of speech that were repeated
to parts and shapes of the
. These included elements of English speech such as vowels, consonants and
. The experiments were limited to around 40 short and
-constructed spoken sentences. The scientists said: "Although we should like the decoder to learn and exploit the regularities of the language, it remains to show how many
would be required to expand from our tiny languages to a more general
of English."
