As soldiers continue to operate overseas, the military has worked hard to find a way to let the English-speaking troops communicate with locals. Raytheon, one of the largest defense contractors working with the US government, says it's found an answer with its TransTalk system, which translates speech on the fly — I can speak English into a computer running the software, and it translates and speaks my words, in your language. It also keeps a Rosetta Stone-style transcript of the entire conversation, in both languages. It's designed with soldiers in the Middle East in mind, so the first six language pairings are English to Iraqi Arabic, Pashto, Dari, Farsi, Malaysian, and Indonesian; the software stores tens of thousands of words in each language, geared toward what soldiers and civillians are talking about. As you can see in the video below, the resulting conversation is a little stilted, and the translation imperfect, but it works impressively well.