After many years of poor results, technological wizards have devised programs for automated translation, speech recognition (as in dictation software) and other services that are actually usable, if far from perfect.

在多年的不理想的结果之后，技术奇才们已经设计出了提供自动翻译、语音识别（如听写软件）以及其他服务的程序，这些程序虽然远远算不上完美，但实际上是有用的。