Docomo Cloud Automatic Translation Service

NTT Docomo is developing an automatic translation service:

“The Cloud Automatic Translation Service, demoed on both Android Smartphone and Tablets, is a dream comes true to. Working both ways for the emitter of the call and the person who’s receiving it, this service will translate live what you are saying from Japanese into English or English to Japanese without you to really have to care of what’s really going one. Further more, this service will also give you the exact translation of what you just said in both language on your smartphone screen to make sure that what you said has been clearly translated or not. Basically in a near future you will be able to call anyone in Japan and get instant translation without even noticing it and without having to bother learning Japanese.”

It might work fine for a the standard phrases shown in the video, but I doubt it will ever work well enough to live up to optimistic hype about never having to learn foreign languages. Still, it’s a pretty interesting concept.

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Anon

Docomo customers would much rather have the ability to use skype on their smartphones. This is junk technology at the moment.

Anonymous

Well as it relates to Docomo maybe it’s junk but I think this technology is pretty amazing. I’ve used the free google version on the iPhones and I’m so amazed that it works. It’s a little tedious to use over skype but it’s definitely better than nothing.
They only big thing I have noticed is that it works much better with 1-3 words at a time rather than a whole sentence. Also it works better in some languages than others. Japanese to English wasn’t too bad in my opinion but English to Chinese was kind of rough.

http://nihonburp.com Michael Warren

“is a dream comes true to” “without you to really have to care of what’s really going one”
Well If they used the software on writing that blurb I will leave it.
Joking aside it seems to be useful for small easy phrases as you mentioned, but for longer more complex sentences I doubt it will be much good. Just like Google translate, great for small bits but anything complex confuses it.
http://nihonburp.com Michael Warren

“is a dream comes true to” “without you to really have to care of what’s really going one”
Well If they used the software on writing that blurb I will leave it.
Joking aside it seems to be useful for small easy phrases as you mentioned, but for longer more complex sentences I doubt it will be much good. Just like Google translate, great for small bits but anything complex confuses it.
WC

“What is the favorite food?” … Oh, good example. -sigh- These are the best examples they could come up with for the commercial, too.
Guy

This is the forerunner of the Universal Translator.

Docomo Cloud Automatic Translation Service

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