Spinvox and Googletalk = Universal Translator?

When I was at the Googleplex a few months back I heard that the project to drop a translation service into Google Talk was coming along really well. The idea is that you’ll be able to chat someone on the other side of the world (or even in the same building as you I guess) without the language barrier. So I’d type in English and they’d receive the DM in their own language. Their replies would then also appear to me instantly translated. Not quite there yet, but very fucking cool.

Now add that kind of functionality into Spinvox.

A year or so ago I did a fun interview with Chinese director Zhang Yuan. His replies were often lengthy and yet what the translator passed back to me was often very short. It was kind of frustrating. Now if we’d been able to push the translator aside and stick in a couple of GoogleSpin ear pieces instead… then my English would be transcribed via Spinvox into text then pushed through a Google translate-bot before being sent on to his earpiece as spoken Chinese.

And vice versa.

Is that doable? I should ask James.