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RWA1981
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 Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:29 am Post subject: Have you guys seen this new incredible translation device? |
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| I just came back from Fuzhou in South China and I saw a tour guide there with a box on his waist with a 6 inch speaker and Japanese writing on it. A headset microphone was plugged into it and as he spoke in Chinese and fairly decent English translation was "spoken" in a digital device that was about 90% accurate with a 2 second delay. This was so cool. He had 32 gig SD cards for about a dozen different languages. Does anyone know who makes this machine or where I can buy one? Thanks loads! |
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Shroob
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:44 am Post subject: Re: Have you guys seen this new incredible translation devic |
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| RWA1981 wrote: |
| I just came back from Fuzhou in South China and I saw a tour guide there with a box on his waist with a 6 inch speaker and Japanese writing on it. A headset microphone was plugged into it and as he spoke in Chinese and fairly decent English translation was "spoken" in a digital device that was about 90% accurate with a 2 second delay. This was so cool. He had 32 gig SD cards for about a dozen different languages. Does anyone know who makes this machine or where I can buy one? Thanks loads! |
Shhhhhhh! You'll put us out of a job! |
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looseleaf
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RWA1981
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| I know the machine is made in Japan because the writing on it was all Japanese. I ask the tour guide where he got it but he said his daughter bought it on line for him as a gift (she is a student in Japan) I cannot find it anywhere. Each language has a separate 32 gigabyte SD card. He only had English, Russian, and Spanish, but I assume there are more languages. The "voice" quality was robotic but still quite understandable. |
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Shroob
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| RWA1981 wrote: |
| I know the machine is made in Japan because the writing on it was all Japanese. I ask the tour guide where he got it but he said his daughter bought it on line for him as a gift (she is a student in Japan) I cannot find it anywhere. Each language has a separate 32 gigabyte SD card. He only had English, Russian, and Spanish, but I assume there are more languages. The "voice" quality was robotic but still quite understandable. |
Sure it wasn't just a pre-recorded message? If they were a tour guide it wouldn't be hard to do that, just have different sound clips for different attractions. Lots of museums, PoI do this already. |
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Guerciotti
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A revolutionary device that no one else has seen, of uncertain origin spotted in Fuzhou with no brand name.
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RWA1981
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| Guerciotti wrote: |
A revolutionary device that no one else has seen, of uncertain origin spotted in Fuzhou with no brand name.
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The origin is Japanese because the printing on the device was surely Japanese. I did not see any English writing on it anywhere. The speech rate was also adjustable. When some people said they did not understand, he was able to turn a button to a different setting and the robotic voice spoke slower. The box was about 15 cm by 30cm by 10cm thick (more or less). |
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