Iraqcomm, developed by California’s Stanford Research Institute, is two-way translation software to help American soldiers/medics in Iraq communicate with Iraqis on some topics without human translators.
Accompanying podcast with translation sample
I hope it helps. On the news I’ve seen some strained “conversations” in the war zone with no translators around. But since the device converts the translations to speech, I worry that people will believe the translations are always correct. Given the convoluted, one-word-one-meaning machine translations that I’ve seen come out of AltaVista’s Babel Fish, such belief could be dangerous.