Simply speak into the phone in English, and the machine prints the text in English so you can confirm it heard you right, then translates it to Arabic script and says it out loud. It also works in reverse. Extremely easy to use, it's expected to be a very handy bit of software for soldiers and security personnel to carry about in Middle-Eastern war zones.
Extrapolate this idea out to a muti-lingual spoken translation engine, and you've got yourself an application that any global traveller would find extremely useful in a whole range of situations. And, as it improves in speed and accuracy, there's no reason why you couldn't build an application that puts a short-delay translation on both parties' voices in a real-time phone conversation. Mobile phones that break down the language barrier... Ain't this an amazing time to be alive?
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