Interpreting languages can be a real challenge. It’s especially difficult for frequent overseas travelers or those who converse with foreign clients over the phone. Google wants to make things easier with smartphone translator software that will instantly convert the words you speak from one language to another while on the phone.

They’ve been doing it for some time with text translation, and now speech-to-speech translation is possible with ‘high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition’ only. The idea is that the users phone would adapt to the user by learning their style of talking and make it easier to translate in real time.

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Hey you. Hardcore Trekkies. Get your face out of that cheetos bag, put down that green Orion babe love doll and listen up. Here’s your chance to use the Klingon language. Again.

You can now tweet in Klingon using this Twitter application. Please use this and right away. That way the rest of us can spot you easily and stay the hell away. That is all. Now you may go back to your fan fiction where data and Picard share a sweaty forbidden love, while Worf watches with a breaking heart.