March 23, 2005
Business Translator for cell phones
Player X and CNN Mobile will release CNN Business Translator phrase guides for mobile phones this week on Orange in the UK, reports Moco News.
"The CNN Business translator has phrase guides in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, which contains phrases useful for business travellers such as “Where's the Hotel?” and “Can I book a table reservation?”, and produces the translations in text and also “pronounced perfectly through the speaker on the handset”.
Other mobile translation services:
-- Text Messaging Gets a Translator - Aa New York City startup called Transclick rolls out software that translates e-mail and text messages with just one click.
-- TOMP (Translation On Mobile Phones) - No registration nor additional software is required to access the TOMP service, and it will work on any phone that is subscribed to a UK network provider, even when roaming abroad.
-- Free phones aid tourists lost in translation - The Kyoto prefectural government will launch a project in December to lend 500 mobile phones with language-translation and road-navigation functions to foreign visitors.
-- English-Arabic translations via SMS - Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) today announced the launch of the new Tarjim service, which allows mobile users to receive translations between Arabic and English of words or phrases
-- SMS translator - A computerized SMS translation service called TransClick, provides quick and accurate translations between most major languages.
-- SMS translation service for travelers launched - The Dutch motoring organisation ANWB, and Van Dale, a prominent dictionary publisher, have launched an SMS-based service that translates between French, German, English, Spanish, and Dutch.
-- My Taylor is Rich: Translation cell phone - A groundbreaking cell phone that automatically translates the speaker's language from Japanese to English and vice versa could be on the market by 2007.
-- Lingophone.com - Lingophone allows mobile users to translate English text into numerous European languages while on the move.
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