Thursday, January 24, 2008

No need to learn foreign language ..your mobile will speak and translate for you!

Sounds interesting? Yeah, now your mobile will translate and speak for you.

Coolgorilla, mobile and ipod software providing site have the software to download. Go tocoolgorilla.com and
check for Mobile Phone Talking Phrasebook. If you are surfing from mobile then click for coolgorilla.mobi. This is talking phrasebook which you can install on your mobile. It currently supports French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese and Greek. It will be very useful application while traveling in those countries. Right now Talking Phrasebook available for Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets. Hope they will release J2ME and window mobile version (cab)!

Google Talk now has bots for translation. You can try it, just add en2fr@bot.talk.google.com bot in your friend list. Talk to bot. whatever you will write for this bot in English, it will be translated to French and displayed as a reply message. And there are total 23 translation bots. ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en. What you need to add ‘@bot.talk.google.com’ after these bot names. Rule is "[from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com"

Now, how can you use it with mobile? Simple, use fring. Add those bots in gtalk buddy list and subscribe/login to gtalk using fring on your mobile. Now, you have them on your mobile.

Cool! Isn’t it?


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