{"id":7481,"date":"2010-02-07T17:18:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T08:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2010-02-07T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T08:18:15","slug":"real-time-translation-scouter-is-tested-in-yamanashi-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/real-time-translation-scouter-is-tested-in-yamanashi-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-time Translation Scouter Is Tested In Yamanashi, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNICT(National Institute of Information and Communication Technology)’s Master Project<\/a>, which stands for “Multi-lingual Advanced Speech and Text reseARch Project” are running an experiment on multilingual (Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean) real-time translation system.
\nNICT has an English and other language pages<\/a> to explain the whole experiment, which are and will be done in 5 different regions in Japan.
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\nAll of those tourist areas offer real time (1-2 seconds delay at most) machine translation in speech-to-speech, speech-to-text and text-to-speech services for foreign visitors for free.
\nAt one of them, Yamanashi prefecture’s experiment<\/a> with NEC and JTB Global Marketing & Travel Inc., not only offers “Handheld mobile type” and “regular PC set” but also provides “Scouter type” with which you can wear on your face and see the translated texts.
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\nI am not sure how practical both voice recognition and Japanese-English machine translation, because even text-to-text machine translation gives me very bad results (for example<\/a>). I want to try it if they come to Tokyo.
\n[Update 2010-02-08] Just one and a half days later, Google is reported to be developing speech-to-speech translation service on cellphones<\/a>. So is this Japanese system years ahead? (I think both systems are and will be so limited, especially between distant languages like English-Japanese.)<\/p>\n

See Also:<\/h3>\n

NEC’s release on the Yamanashi experiment<\/a> [J]
\nNEC’s “Tele Scouter” product page<\/a> [J]
\nITPro’s report<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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