Lastminute.com goes Doctor Who with speaking language translator mobile phones
Rating: hello, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, adieu…
CoolGorilla has announced the launch of six new talking phrase books for downloading on a mobile phone. They are all now available via mobile portals from the service provide WIN.
The application is intuitive. Users navigate to phrases in English and then press select. On doing so the phone speaks the phrase in the foreign language via the mobile phone.
From the press release:
The applications are available for English-speakers to communicate in
six foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, Greek, Italian and
Portuguese. Each version has between 250 - 300 sound files covering all
elements of their foreign experience including Eating, Travel and
Emergencies. Later this year more talking phrase books will be launched
including multiple versions communicating from one non-English language
to another, eg French to Italian.
Roy Forsdick, of developer CoolGorilla, said: “The lastminute.com mobile
phone phrasebooks are unique in the marketplace - no other application
delivers voice translations such as these. The mobile phone is the
perfect platform for people to use this sort of application as people
carry their mobiles with them at all times. In fact it makes such
intuitive sense for people to use talking phrasebooks on their mobile
phone that I am amazed no-one has developed anything like this before.”
What we think?
This is all very Doctor Who isn’t it? But could it translate Tardis?
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