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Spoken Japanese-English translation Using Your PDA

Posted by Hemos on from the better-be-a-fast-microprocc dept.

Ewann writes "Yet another step closer to the universal translator: Digitimes is reporting that NEC has announced trials of software for your PDA that listens to spoken English and Japanese phrases, translates them, and re-speaks them in the other language. Should be very handy the next time I'm in Tokyo."

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  1. Re:Make sure you use headphones by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    i heartily invite you to eat a bag of shit and shoot yourself in the head.

    yeah. pretty much, big guy.

  2. Yet another way for Japanese to be lazy by dinodriver · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    They already have electronic gadgets that allow Japanese to choose a phrase from the menu, push the button, and it speaks the English phrase out loud. This won't be much better. Most Japanese construct their sentences without subjects and often without objects. Actual rules of grammar are ignored when not necessary to get the meaning across. The listener is already familiar with what/who they are talking about and can make sense of it: the computer will have no chance.

    People should stop being lazy. If you want to speak a foreign langauge, just learn the damn language. It's not that hard to do when you really need to (even Japanese).