I just found the coolest app for my new Android phone, so I made a video review of it!
Transcript:
Today I found an application for my new android phone that just really blew my mind. The application is called “Talk To Me Cloud”
It runs on Android 1.5 and above and it is essentially the Universal Translator from that Gene Roddenberry television show, you know, “Star Trek”.
You speak and then it translates into spoken foreign language for you. German, Spanish. . .
So that I can say things like, “I really believe that we live in the future.”
(Phone translates in German)
And then my phone speaks it for me.
Now it uses an external server to send the data that you’re speaking and then to send back the processed audio file which is then played. . . So you have to have a pretty good connection, but still you have an interface to a universal translator in the palm of your hand constantly. And this is proof, that we live in the future. That is why (phone says “I really believe that we live in the future.” in German).
Absolutely folks. Absolutely.
Now, keep in mind it only translates about as well as Google translate or Babelfish. So there’s going to be some mistranslations here and there, but it generally will translate well enough for you to have a small conversation, get directions to the train station, find your way to the hotel, order a meal, order some beers, order, whatever you need to. . . And then they can also speak their language into it and then it will translate back to English if you like, which is really amazing as far as I’m concerned. I really don’t care that it’s kind of badly translated here and there, because it still translates better than I can. So there you have it.
Alright, folks give it a try if you have the android phones, any of them. I use the Motorola i1 which is the new Boost Mobile prepaid one. I like prepaid. I like android, because I can develop on it. And I’ll catch you guys another day.
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