Nec, japan institute to field test 4-language translation system

[Astroboy]

NEC Corp. and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on Wednesday announced that they will begin field testing handheld devices that can translate Japanese, English , Chinese and Korean.

The test will run from Monday through Feb. 21 in Yamanashi Prefecture's tourist region. A total of 350 handsets will be distributed to 29 locations, including hotels and tourist guide centers, where employees will be encouraged to use them to verify whether the translation system helps when responding to foreign visitors.

http://www.zibb.com/article/5798994/NEC+JAPAN+INSTITUTE+TO+FIELD+TEST+LANGUAGE+TRANSLATION+SYSTEM

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If this kind of translation system go live, foreign tourists will travel around Japan easily.
At the same time, we may not need to study foreign language at school anymore !!!
But interpretor/translator may lose job.

Good for you or Not ?

 

[Hezam]

WOW That's very great !
Of course it's VERY good for me ^^
They may add Arabic language later so i can visit Japan someday..
Thanks for the great news.

 

[Astroboy]

WOW That's very great !
Of course it's VERY good for me ^^
They may add Arabic language later so i can visit Japan someday..
Thanks for the great news.

Everything is possible, I think. Arabic version must follow soon !

 

[Half-n-Half]

That just takes the fun out of learning another language

 

[Hezam]

That just takes the fun out of learning another language

You are right,I like to speak Japanese and english....
But since it helps me to visit Japan i dont care too much.