Google translation dream is pie in the sky

At a recent shindig at Google's UK HQ, a speaker demonstrated Google's voice recognition on a mobile phone, by asking his phone to summon up: "Pictures of Barack Obama and the French Prime Minister at the G8 summit." The phone understood this as: "Pictures of Barack Obama in the French President at the G8 summit". Those were perhaps the pictures the world really wanted to see. Speech recognition by machine has its dangers but now Google thinks it can also get its...