Modern Languages on the Gadget Show
Channel 5's Gadget Show spend a day with students and staff from the Department of Modern Languages.
Can today’s language gadgets and apps match human translators and interpreters? Are jokes in German funny if they are told by a machine?
Such were the questions considered by Channel 5's Gadget Show during a day-long shoot earlier this term with students and staff from the Department of Modern Languages, which culminated in a machines-versus-humans translation and interpreting competition in the Muirhead Tower. The episode was screened on Channel 5 on Monday 26 October, and is available to watch again on Channel5 website (see particularly minutes 16.45-23 and 42-47).