{"id":3354,"date":"2009-05-01T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T01:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2009-05-01T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T01:16:02","slug":"be-more-punctual-and-smarte-with-nhk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/be-more-punctual-and-smarte-with-nhk\/","title":{"rendered":"Be More Punctual And Smarter With NHK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NHK's
\nOn Thursday, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK<\/a> released the iPhone\/iPod app imitating its originally designed clock which used to be seen by almost all of Japanese people at the beginning of every evening’s news program.
\n(This link will launch your iTunes\u00a0to download the app.)<\/a>
\n\"NHK \"NHK
\nAs Japanese terrestrial TV broadcast switches into digital, broadcasters can no longer bring you the time signals telling accurate time, due to the time lag caused by video\/audio compression and decompression processes especially required for digital broadcast and its viewing.
\nIn response to the expectations of the clock’s\u00a0 fans who has lost opportunity to see it, NHK has released several editions of the virtual clock app in forms of Adobe AIR<\/a>-basd app, iWidget[J]<\/a> (for NTT DoCoMo’s cellphone handsets) and blog widget for major blog platforms.
\nOn the other hand,\u00a0individual Macintosh software developer Mr. Nobuatsu Sekine<\/a> developed and released the iPhone\/iPod app a couple of weeks ago, allowing you to read and listen to news scripts provided by Radio Japan or NHK’s overseas broadcast in seven languages – Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic and Russian.
\n(This link will launch your iTunes\u00a0to download the app.<\/a>)
\n\"FLNews \"FLNews
\nSince the app shows you the transcripts of news headlines and also makes you hear fluent story reading by native speaking news anchors, it would be a great tool for your daily-basis language learning, and the app developer hopes so.<\/p>\n

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