Written by Peter Murphy on Sunday, December 2, 2007

Automatic Language Translator for your phone


NEC is working on a language translation application for mobile phones. This program lets you translate from Japanese to English, any sentence you speak into your phone.image This is a really good idea and heralds a new horizon for voice recognition technology. It’s new, it doesn’t work quite right yet, but it’s only a preview from NEC that the guys from Akhibaranews were privy to, but what a great tool.

Simply put, thanks to this achievement, you will be able to translate any sentences you may speak into your phone from Japanese to English. The software has a pretty wide dictionary of 50,000 words, and while it is in fact not very new (NEC had the very same system developed in 1983), this is the very first time that we could see such software running on an everyday mobile phone.

 

This is a great idea and will be a boon for all of you frequent travellers.

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Bill Grandizio
Dec 26, 2007

WOW….AMAZING…
You’re giving NEC too much credit!!
Their mobile application is basically a mobilized limited dictionary in one language pair. This is not a significant breaktrough and proves that major companies have the ability to produce substandard services and promote it as the “next best thing ” in the mobile sector.
RantNetwork provides Translation 5 different ways on a handset, real time (no dictionaries). Translatable Image Translatation (take a picture in one langiuage and translate to another language),Text Translation email and SMS. They recently released their text2voice translation application for SmartPhones. They added the following language pairs in September: Indonesia to English Pashto to English , Tagalog to English. It helps to further penetrate the Asian Pacific region.
The service has the unique quality of penetrating ALL mobile markets with the varied applications offered Enterprise customers can utilize the email and SMS or all of the others. In addition, our offering also attracts the Government agencies, Law enforcement and educational institutions. On the commercial side our service presents itself as more than a translation vehicle…..Overall Rantnetwork enables mobile customers to translate and communicate in over 20 languages.
So why the big announcement from NEC…………?

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