Public opinion is fickle and variable; an ever-changing commodity

Early mass communication scholars wrongly assumed that

A) people are active, not passive media users. B) people absorb messages like sponges. C) audiences are intelligent. D) people review media content critically.

Recently, voice translators involving speech recognition, machine translation, and voice synthesis have been developed for handheld devices for use between English and ______.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).