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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."

3 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This isn't new. by GTownBeast · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long did it take before the 14 year olds were getting it to talk dirty to passing people?

    --
    Rumor has it... that Catholic School Girls Rule
  2. Pardon me by sloptaco · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Pardon me, where's the restroom."

    -->"Kimi, bukkake demo yoroshii desyou ka?"

  3. children are overrated by surreal-maitland · · Score: 5, Funny
    this thing is too cute. *and* it's useful. i'm going to buy a dozen in different languages. it's probably cheaper than having a couple of kids.

    i can't wait for "robots say the darnedest things"

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    -ninjaneer