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Tokyo Narita Airport Gets PDA Voice Translators

Posted by michael on Friday March 5, 2004 @04:11AM 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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Oh boy.. by frodo+from+middle+ea · 2004-03-05 04:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Get ready for "All your bases..." jokes, starting with this one.

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for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
at fault by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-05 04:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I blame the video games.
Re:Did You Know That... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-05 04:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

According to IMDB, Letterman and Leno really did write for Good Times. It's the only TV show (other than their own) that either of them worked on. Strange shit.