{"id":9540,"date":"2010-08-06T03:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T18:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2010-08-06T03:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T18:02:01","slug":"nict-introduces-iphone-app-interpreting-what-you-speak-or-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/nict-introduces-iphone-app-interpreting-what-you-speak-or-type\/","title":{"rendered":"NICT Introduces iPhone App Interpreting What You Speak Or Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"NICT's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/nict_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"46\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nict.go.jp\/index.html\">NICT<\/a>, Japan&#8217;s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, introduced the iPhone app called VoiceTra which interprets what you speak. \u00a0 It allows voice input (original) in five languages of Japanese, English, Mandarin, Indonesian and Vietnamese, voice output (interpreted result) in these five languages and text output (interpreted result) in 16 languages of Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai and Vietnamese.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/jp\/app\/id383542155?mt=8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9543\" title=\"VoiceTra's Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/VoiceTra_Screenshot.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"384\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Available on the AppStore\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/available_at_appstore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNote: In the example shown above, what I&#8217;ve spoken is misdictated and gramatically mistaken.\u00a0 The translated result is incorrect, too.<br \/>\nThe institute introduced the iPhone app called Textra for text translation as well.\u00a0\u00a0 It supports text input\/output in 21 languages of Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai and Vietnamese.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/jp\/app\/id383803959?mt=8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9542\" title=\"TexTra's Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TexTra_screenshot.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"384\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Available on the AppStore\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/available_at_appstore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThese apps are designed for satisfying your interpretation needs in travel conversation opportunities in the countries where your unknown languages are spoken.\u00a0\u00a0 3G or WiFi connectivity is necessary because interpretation is processed on NICT&#8217;s servers.\u00a0\u00a0 These two apps have been published for the purpose of performance evaluation and usability survey, and are available until the end of this year.<br \/>\n<strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/real-time-translation-scouter-is-tested-in-yamanashi-japan\/\">Real-time Translation Scouter Is Tested In Yamanashi, Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 448px; width: 1px; height: 1px;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: MS UI Gothic; font-size: x-small;\">Note: In the example shown above, what  I&#8217;ve spoken is misdictated and gramatically mistaken.\u00a0 Translated results into  Chinese is incorrect, too.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICT, Japan&#8217;s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, introduced the iPhone app called VoiceTra which interprets what you speak. \u00a0 It allows voice input (original) in five languages of Japanese, English, Mandarin, Indonesian and Vietnamese, voice output (interpreted result) in these five languages and text output (interpreted result) in 16 languages of Arabic, Brazilian&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/nict-introduces-iphone-app-interpreting-what-you-speak-or-type\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NICT Introduces iPhone App Interpreting What You Speak Or Type<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17,24,35],"tags":[2596,3663,4010],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-news","category-technology","tag-nict","tag-textra","tag-voicetra","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}