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nellychess



Joined: 25 Mar 2005
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Location: USA

PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:00 pm    Post subject: Electronic Translators? Reply with quote

Does anyone here use one in every day life? Is there such a thing yet that has speech recognition in both languages?

I will be moving to China. I don't speak any Chinese yet. Any recommendations for a translator?

Thanks


PS I will work very hard to learn Chinese once I get there.
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Harbin



Joined: 19 Feb 2013
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Google Translate app on my Android phone has worked well enough thus far. I've done everything from enable internet banking to shipping packages back home Google Translate.

I don't think the speech recognition capabilities of Google Translate are very high on Android devices. You won't want to use the speech recognition anyway - typing is faster because you have to wait for the recording to upload to Google's servers and then process before getting your result.
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AbeCross



Joined: 21 Jun 2012
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 5:00 pm    Post subject: Learning Chinese Reply with quote

I recommend Pimsleur audio CDs for learning conversational Chinese. It's expensive but good.
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