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Tokyo Narita Airport Gets PDA Voice Translators

Posted by michael on from the nihongo-wa-amari-hanashimasen dept.

commanderfoxtrot writes "According to the BBC, Narita airport can hire out PDAs capable of translating 50,000 Japanese and 25,000 English spoken words. This is all part of the e-Airport scheme at Narita: The speech-to-speech technology was developed by NEC, tested in Papero robots and then put in PDAs. ... Papero (Partner-Type Personal Robot), is the first robot to translate verbally between two languages in colloquial tongue."

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  1. Re:Business travel by Dusabre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You've been to Singapore. Tell me what part of Japan is Singapore in? THIS IS AN ARTICLE ABOUT A JAPANESE AIRPORT.

    NARITA.

    In Singapore they speak fluent English because they were occupied by Oxford educated officers.

    In Japan, they speak Engrish because they were occupied by GIs (just joking).

    For heaven's sake. Mod the parent down.