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The scientists are at the
stages of machine-translating
someone says. Their software matched frequently-repeated
of speech to parts and shapes of the
. These included elements of speech such as
, consonants and commands. The scientists used
40 short and
spoken sentences. The scientists said: "Although we should like the decoder to learn and exploit the
of the language, it remains to show how many
would be required to expand from our tiny languages to a more general
of English."