[gui-talk] Fwd: Accessible APP: Bring The Star Trek Universal Translator To Your iPhone 3GS or iPod Touch

[Steve Pattison]

 From:    Dane Trethowan grtdane at internode.on.net
 To:      vip-l at freelists.org

The following will appear on Candleshore on Friday, January 1, 2010.

Bring The Star Trek Universal Translator To Your iPhone 3GS or iPod Touch

Hello Fellow iPhone and iPod Touchers,

I am delighted to post about a fabulous, VoiceOver accessible, 
bi-directional, real-time, translation application for your iPhone 3GS 
or iPod Touch. I think a predecessor to the Star Trek’s Universal 
Translator is finally here.

APPLICATION DESCRIPTION

Jibbigo is a bi-directional, natural speech-to-speech translation app 
that lets you converse with a speaker of another language through spoken 
language. Jibbigo is not a dictionary and not a phrase book, but a 
speech translator: You simply speak a sentence in English or Spanish 
into Jibbigo, and it speaks the sentence aloud in the other language, 
much like a personal human interpreter would. Jibbigo also shows the 
recognition and translation in English and Spanish as text on the app 
screen, so you can be sure your translation is accurate to what you spoke.

Jibbigo is bi-directional; it translates a spoken sentence from English 
to Spanish or from Spanish to English for a two way dialog between 
English and Spanish speakers (Bi-directional operation is available on 
3GS only. Older iphone models, 3G phones and iPod Touch run 
uni-directionally.

PLEASE NOTE the translation still works in both directions in both 
languages.). Best of all, Jibbigo runs completely on your iPhone and 
does not connect to remote servers via data-communication links. There 
are no connection delays, no roaming charges and no disconnects! That 
means your pocket interpreter does not disappear on you during foreign 
travel when you need it the most.

To use Jibbigo: simply hold down the record button and speak. Then let 
Jibbigo translate and speak the translation aloud. It’s really that 
easy. For a brief introduction on how Jibbigo works, please see our 
video at www.jibbigo.com Jibbigo is a general speech translator, i.e., 
not limited to a list of preprogrammed phrases. However, it does assume 
that the user only speak one or two sentences at a time. Jibbigo has a 
general vocabulary of ~40,000 words, but it has been tuned to the 
communication needs of international travelers or medical doctors.

PLEASE NOTE that Jibbigo will censor and bleep out “rude” words that are 
spoken. A Rude Dictionary will be released in December and will allow 
Jibbigo users to translate “rude” words.

In case of recognition errors, missing words, or mistranslations, 
Jibbigo also provides a large background dictionary, adaptation and 
error correction techniques (please see our website www.jibbigo.com for 
details) Languages: English (US-/European- accented), Spanish (South 
American) Other languages in preparation.

Requirements: Bi-Directional configuration is currently compatible with 
iPhone 3GS, only. Operation on older model iPhones, iPod Touch is 
possible, but unidirectional (user selects language direction) and slow.

To be added to our email update list, please email updates at jibbigo.com

iTunes Price: 24.99 USD.

Click Here 
<http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jibbigo-speech-translator-english/id333515473?mt=8> 
to get your translation on …

Regards Steve
Email:  srp at internode.on.net
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