Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 37

[thirty-seven.]

Although the World Cup has disrupted the well-organized work order of Digital Totem for a period of time, most of the work is still carried out in an orderly manner. After all, this is a World Cup without the Chinese team. It is still difficult to make people crazy.

During the World Cup, you can see people working with squinting panda eyes everywhere in the company, people filling cup after cup of coffee, people falling asleep on the table during lunch break… and so on.

However, overall, the progress of the work is quite satisfactory.

Due to work, Lv Zhenyu did not go to Germany with him, but stayed to organize and manage the company’s work. It was Lei Tao who brought the students of Kylin Academy and the company’s employees to Germany. It was Chen Ning who went to inspect the poorer areas.

Lu Zhenyu himself did not expect that Chen Ning, who usually looks like a gorgeous and luxurious young lady, actually took the initiative to undertake this not easy task.

Of course, there were several security guards who followed Chen Ning.

Due to the needs of business strategy, the company has decided to release that horrible translation software on July 3rd.

During this time, Lu Dekun, who was in charge of this project, was very busy. His team, in terms of personnel composition, was definitely the most complicated. Linguists, writers, semiotics and programmers from all over the world gathered together. Almost a little UNESCO.

The problem of communication is still a trivial matter. The more troublesome thing is that the contradictions between the various groups have never stopped. The quarrel between the Arabic group and the Hebrew group has never stopped. The source issue is so noisy… These are things to be expected.

Each language represents the geography and culture of a nation and a country over the course of its history. In the working groups targeting their respective languages, these kinds of contradictions and conflicts that are usually covered up by the so-called international language continue to arise. Exposing it turned a small development team into a bucket of fire.

Recently, the most heated issue is which languages are included in the first batch of translation software.

It has now been decided that the sales method of the public release version is to have mutual translation between Chinese and other 5 languages, and the future languages will be used as plug-ins and issued separately. The default of a software is Chinese and 5 languages, and it needs to be replaced. If you want to increase the number of languages supported by the software, you will have to pay extra.

In this way of distribution, the initial language undoubtedly occupies a considerable advantage, and, when such a software is released, the five languages it brings are equivalent to being recognized as a strong language.

Among these five languages, French and German were the first to be identified, and English was definitely to be added to it. The problem is that the British and Americans quarreled over whether to choose British English or American English. Let’s plant it together, Lu Dekun’s method is to let them quarrel and wait for the result of their own quarrel.

Then it was determined that Russian was the one. Although the influence of Russian is now far less than that of English or even Chinese, it is still an important language.

In this way, the four languages are basically determined.

The main dispute is the last language, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew and Japanese, the five groups are lobbying Lu Dekun, because he holds the final decision-making power in this regard.

To be honest, Lu Dekun is not very interested in choosing one of the Latin languages, so Spanish and Italian are basically ignored. Whichever Arabic or Hebrew chooses will offend the other, which is also troublesome. Things, originally, the Japanese selection has become a foregone conclusion, but not

It was too early to express a position.

The team leader in charge of Japanese grammar and pronunciation is a very simple and honest old man named Naito Tsubun. He has always admired Chinese culture. He even speaks very fluent Chinese, and can even speak several dialects. There is also a beautiful brush calligraphy that makes many people feel ashamed.

Naito was a seconded professor from Waseda University in Japan. At that time, the Japanese recommended him mainly because Kondo’s Chinese was good, and his position was relatively left, so it was easy to cooperate with the Chinese side.

Although the Japanese side considered a lot, unpleasant things still happened.

At the end of June, a school director of Waseda University came to Shanghai, somehow remembered that Naito Tsuwen was working in Digital Totem for a short time, and came to the headquarters of Digital Totem.

When Naito talked to him about the exciting work during this period, he also mentioned that everyone is fighting for the last default language slot.

Unexpectedly, the director frowned and said: “Hebrew and Arabic? How can it be compared with our Japanese? Are the Chinese people stupid?” This sentence is offending too many people, on this translation platform In the research and development team, after nearly two months of mixing, and with countless computers equipped with the internal test version of the translation software, no one can understand anyone’s words.

After throwing the idiot director out, Lu Dekun said to Naito Tsuwen: “I respect your education and character, but I have to explain this matter.” As a result, Japanese was removed from the shortlist for the default language was removed, and will not appear in the list of first published language plugins.

Instead of Japanese, Hebrew appeared.

After fully communicating with the Arabic R&D team, they are no longer angry.

On July 3, a rather grand press conference was held in the auditorium of the Shanghai International Convention Center.

As early as when Digital Totem announced the release date of this translation software, interview requests from various media around the world came together in various ways.

In today’s auditorium, there are hundreds of journalists from media from hundreds of different countries, hundreds of scholars who have worked on Digital Totem for several months and made outstanding contributions to the development of this software, and hundreds of scholars from the government Many officials of the department, all kinds of people gathered together.

This auditorium has a complete simultaneous interpretation system, but today, the translators who were supposed to stay in the glass cubicle have been replaced by a set of servers installed with translation software on the side of the rostrum. This translation software, The personable Lei Tao,

who was named “Zonghengjia”

, has now fallen in love with this role similar to the company’s press spokesman. Today, he is still standing in front of the slender podium and enthusiastically talking about the birth of this great product. He never knew that today’s speech was drafted by Lv Zhenyu’s secret assistant Xiao Yu, and even the public relations consultant and secretary in the president’s office knew nothing about it, he just thought it was just a whim of the president.

sonicmtl.

com in the gap between the communication of different languages, the requirements for accuracy and mastery become more and more urgent and serious.

… Today, the symbolic story of the Tower of Babel is mentioned here, not for any religion associated with it, but for the human power that is foreshadowed in this story.

When people of all nationalities in the world can communicate with each other, can fully convey their meaning to everyone, and can pool the strength of all people for a goal that is so grand that even our generation can’t see the results, I feel scared It will never be us humans ourselves.

We are still far from this goal.

Among them, perhaps because the language of ‘turbulence’ has led us to different tributaries in the long history of thousands of years, leading to conflicts and differences, leading to disputes rather than understanding.

This may not be the only reason why we can see and hear the history full of gunpowder smoke and blood and tears, but it is the first wound we try to heal through our efforts.

… Today, we are here to officially announce to the world that “Zonghengjia” voice/text multi-functional translation software is officially released!

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In the thunderous applause, Lei Tao pressed the button on the podium, the bright red curtain slowly slid to the sides, and a 4-meter-high software box was pushed to the front.

The rumbling sound of war drums sounded in the entire auditorium at the right time, pushing everyone’s emotions to the highest point… At the press conference, Digital Totem also announced that it will be launched as soon as possible based on “Zonghengjia”, which can support two to three languages. Translator’s portable translation device.

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