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"NASA develops system to computerize silent, 'subvocal speech,'" NASA News, Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, California; March 17, 2004; Release: 04-18AR

The journal Science, August 6, 1999 issue describes a demonstration of six-way, real time language translation via computer. Six people in six countries speaking six different languages carried on a spontaneous conversation electronically without any human interpreters on July 22nd. It was sponsored by the Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR) using video links. It appears to have worked flawlessly. They have a website: www.c-star.org.

Also described in New York Times newspaper article, July 29, 1999, "Toward Better Communication Across the Language Barrier," by Lisa Guernsey.
Go to www.nytimes.com, on Home Page find Search Premium Archive, and enter C-STAR.