“Translating Telephone technology — speech-to-speech language translation during phone calls — is commonly used for many language pairs.”

Ray KurzweilThought Leader

Inventor and futurist, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines

Speech translation apps appeared only at the very end of 2009 (Kurzweil himself pointed to a late-2009 iPhone app and Google's voice translation), so the technology existed in early consumer form but was not yet 'commonly used' for many language pairs by the deadline.