Monday, June 26, 2006
Audiantis World Cup Special - Free Text Translation with Streaming Speech
Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai in "SOFTWARE" @ 10:00 AM
"The Berlin company Audiantis is offering the beta version of its combined translation and speech output service iSound TranSpeaker free of charge for the duration of the world cup. This enables e.g. an English speaker to input a request or an order into his mobile device, immediately receiving the German translation as speech output. Equally, he can input an unfamiliar German text – from a newspaper or from a signpost – receiving the speech output in English."
In my prior travels to Munich, I had loaded this great little application that contained a laundry list of common travelers phrases. You'd click on one and get the audio playback of the translated phrase in German. Well, Audiantis that concept one step further by allowing the user to input any phrase they want and then get back the streaming audio translation. Now, this does require an internet connection (GPRS is "more than sufficient" according to their CTO) and the product is in beta, but the service is free for the entire duration of the World Cup. So if anyone is interested, get the download here and let us know how this works for you. Both Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5 devices (Pocket PC and Smartphone) are supported.
In my prior travels to Munich, I had loaded this great little application that contained a laundry list of common travelers phrases. You'd click on one and get the audio playback of the translated phrase in German. Well, Audiantis that concept one step further by allowing the user to input any phrase they want and then get back the streaming audio translation. Now, this does require an internet connection (GPRS is "more than sufficient" according to their CTO) and the product is in beta, but the service is free for the entire duration of the World Cup. So if anyone is interested, get the download here and let us know how this works for you. Both Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5 devices (Pocket PC and Smartphone) are supported.
