Whilst you are on your way to some conference and only when you reach there you realize all the panelists are Japanese. And you feel handicap. But now this won’t happen again as your dear cell phone can now hear the ongoing Japanese verse and can convert it into the English language on your screen within seconds.

NEC has lately developed software that includes a voice-recognition system and translation functions, adequately compressed to operate on a minute microprocessor equipped in a cell phone. The company takes the honor in producing the mechanical translation software on a cell phone for the first time without any outside help. The software can identify around 50,000 Japanese words and is designed for even paraphrase of tour idioms like “Can I have a subway route map?” Also, it is probable to turn the English translation verbal but NEC is presently not concentrating over that.

Via Physorg