Japan firm launches real-time telephone translation
JAPAN: Japan’s biggest mobile operator said Monday it will
launch a translation service that lets people chat over the telephone in
several different languages.
The application for NTT DoCoMo subscribers will give two-way voice
and text readouts of conversations between Japanese speakers and those
talking in English, Chinese or Korean with a several-second delay, the
firm said.
“Hanashite Honyaku” will be a free application that can be used on
smartphones and tablet computers with the Android operating system,
DoCoMo said. Customers will also be able to call landlines using the
service, it said, adding that voice-to-text readouts will soon be
available in French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
and Thai.
“We hope that with this application, our subscribers will be able to
widen the range of their communication,” a company spokeswoman said.
AFP
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