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Voice and text translation in 21 languages on iPhone



Japan National Institute of Information Communications Technology (NICT) has announced that it's brought voice and text translation in 21 languages on iPhone. The press release says, "VoiceTra, a voice translation application enabling conversation via voice input, and TexTra, a text input-based translation application, are available for download from the App Store. Developed by NICT, both applications enable high-quality translation among multiple languages."  The "portable translation equipment for 21 languages" sounds pretty neat and exciting, isn't it?


Source: Press Release of National Institute of Information and Technology


9/6/10

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