It's kind of interesting how life mimics sci-fi at times.. the universal translator was described as almost tokenizing text like CLIP does and then detokenizing it back to the user's language.. I know its not as easy as that as different languages have contextual clues that appear at different parts of the sentence structure.. so real time translation may not be fully possible without some type of neural interface but near real time (a sentence at a time) is likely very achievable with near perfect accuracy...