Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) is a private laboratory in Kyoto Prefecture Japan.
The company has developed Internet software for cell phones that translates Japanese sentences into English and the other way around.
Chinese translation capability will follow ....sometime next spring and well in advance of the Beijing games.
The major cell phone companies plan to introduce the software as part of their new service by the end of the year.
The software puts about 1 million sentences into the phones. The voice activated translations will show up on the screen and can be heard audibly.
CEO of ATR-Lang, Inc. says, "Exchanges between Japan and China will be promoted through cell phones at the time of the 2008 Beijing Games."
Can the service translate "We kicked your butt on the parallel bars but your guy smoked us in the 100 meter butterfly?"
Great innovation...but what's going to happen to studying? And will they teach a phone how to gesture and hug as well?
What do you think?
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