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  • Google Goggles starts to get useful, adds text translation

    Google Goggles starts to get useful, adds text translation

    Posted on May 6, 2010 | No Comments
    In our experience, about the only thing Google Goggles is good for is telling you that your can of Coke looks like someone's face, but the company's just-released version 1.1 sounds like it might be on a whole new level of awesomeness. Basically, Goggles can now recognize text within the "region of interest" that you specify on the screen then give you the option to translate it to any language of your choosing. Between this and Google's already quite good Translate app, Android devices are getting dangerously close to letting monoglots (thanks for the great word, Google) travel safely and effectively in foreign lands. Other improvements in Goggles 1.1 include better barcode and image recognition (thank goodness), an improved UI, and the ability to initiate identification from your gallery, so it sounds like a must-download if you've got a phone running Android 1.6 or better. It's available now.

    Google Goggles starts to get useful, adds text translation originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 11:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Bowlingual: iPhone app translates what your dog barks, posts it to Twitter

    Bowlingual: iPhone app translates what your dog barks, posts it to Twitter

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Do you remember the Bowlingual, the portable dog language translator that was released in Japan last year? The basic concept behind the $250 device (which people living outside Japan can get here) will soon be used for an iPhone app that translates what a dog “says” into human language and emoticons in real-time.

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  • Toshiba works on instant voice translation software for cell phones

    Toshiba works on instant voice translation software for cell phones

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    It makes a lot of sense, but it seems to be hard to realize: Using the cell phone for instant voice translation of basic sentences whenever you're in a foreign country. But Toshiba is one of the companies working on this, and apparently they're almost ready to offer a decent solution. Their translation software, in its current iteration, enables cell phones to interpret between English, Chinese and Japanese. Toshiba says that the database, used on their TG01 "smartphone" (pictured on the left), for example, boasts a database of 30,000 words spoken in each of these languages. Toshiba optimized existing PC software for use in cell phones, which obviously have less processing power.

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  • Instant translation: Jibbigo Spanish-English translator works in real time

    Instant translation: Jibbigo Spanish-English translator works in real time

    Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Can you even imagine what it must have been like to be an early explorer? Like, you leave Spain or Portugal on some rickety boat, and arrive in the New World. Cool and all, but, outside of shooting everything in sight, how do you communicate with anybody? What, do you point to the sun and say “sol,” and expect the other guy to repeat “sol”? That can't be an efficient way to learn a language, especially when it's, you know, a very real clash of cultures. If only they had (drum roll, please) something like Jibbigo Speech Translator English Spanish, which automatically translates from Spanish into English, and vice-versa.

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  • Jibbigo iPhone app translates from English to Spanish and back again

    Jibbigo iPhone app translates from English to Spanish and back again

    Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments

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    Jibbigo is a recently released iPhone app which promises to help you out the next time you're desperately trying to make yourself understood by your Spanish-speaking compadres. The app is capable of recording a sentence and translating it -- essentially in real time -- back to you. As you can see in the screencap above, you can speak either Spanish or English, and the translator will do its work, displaying both your original and a translation into the other language. The dictionary contains about 40,000 words, and the app is aimed at travelers. Jibbigo also requires the iPhone 3GS to make use of the bi-directional translation tools, and the app also reportedly functions a heck of a lot slower on anything other than the 3G. The app is available now for $24.99.

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    Jibbigo iPhone app translates from English to Spanish and back again originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Live demo of Toshiba voice translation software

    Live demo of Toshiba voice translation software

    Posted on October 7, 2009 | No Comments
    Boy howdy could I use this thing at CEATEC today. Running on a Windows Mobile handheld, Toshiba has a real-time voice translation demonstration. It worked quite well. How much longer until we get the Star Trek universal translators? Video inside!

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