Handheld translators that talk a new tool for U.S. soldiers in faraway lands
Source: Digita|mass
OWEGO, N.Y. (AP) If U.S. troops soon storm into Iraq, they'll be counting on computerized language translators to help with everything from interrogating prisoners to locating chemical weapons caches.
Besides converting orders like ''put your hands up'' into spoken Arabic or Kurdish, military officials hope to enable quick translations of time-sensitive intelligence from some of the world's most difficult tongues normally a painstaking task.
