POTSDAM, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–You’re on business trip in Mexico and are unable to read the memo in Spanish? Or the menu while on vacation in France? Or the Russian street signs perhaps?
With “SnapTranslate” all that is a thing of the past. At the AppStore simply load it to your iPhone, photograph the foreign language text with your iPhone camera and in just a few seconds SnapTranslate translates the text and even reads it aloud. Entirely without typing. It couldn’t be simpler.
SnapTranslate comes from PONS, the leading German dictionary publishing company, and is based on the revolutionary real time text detection technology© from beyo. The software captures the text selected via the iPhone’s camera in no time at all. And, SnapTranslate can be operated with just one hand.
The user then selects the section that is to be translated from the captured text blocks. That makes the application particularly fast because only the data that really is to be translated is transmitted. The transmission itself is securely coded. The translation is available after only a few seconds. It can then be viewed as text or read aloud using the sound output of the device.
PONS SnapTranslate is suitable for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 and is immediately available at iTunes for two different language packages: Starter ($11.99, English-Spanish) and Premium ($24.99, English, French, Spanish, German, Polish).
Link to the AppStore:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/beyo-gmbh/id389980129?uo=4
Free introductory version
A free English-Spanish version that allows for twenty photographs while offering full functionality is available to all interested iPhone users for testing at iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snaptranslate-free-us/id390685517?mt=8&uo=4
View a short presentation video of SnapTranslate at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PONSeu?feature=mhum#p/u/4/rPOzJS55KRQ
Features of PONS SnapTranslate:
• The world’s first system with full text and single word translation without the annoyance of typing the searched word – simply with photo scan!
• Automatic trip with audiovisual feedback prevents blurred photographs
• Efficient beyo image preprocessing technology for optimum image recording
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• Intelligent beyo layout detection for quick navigation within the text (similar to the iPhone Safari Browser)
• Text recognition takes place directly on the device: no high costs caused by image transmission and the translation is available in no time at all
• Secure transmission of the original texts and translations through coding
• Constant updating of dictionary contents by PONS editors
• Simple and reliable search function, also for multi-word combinations
• Tips on use, style level and regional linguistic usage
• Completely without advertisements
Technical requirements:
• For iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4
• Internet connection
• Additional costs may be incurred for the translation through roaming
