Research Notes: The Translation Technology Trail

Jun 18, 2025

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The Starting Question

Simultaneous speech-to-speech translation moved from academic papers to Apple’s consumer devices in six months. That acceleration pattern showed up everywhere once I started looking for it. The trigger was seeing Apple’s announcement at WWDC in June 2025 about live translation built into Messages, FaceTime, and Phone. That felt like…

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