Sunday, May 22, 2011

Speech Translator App Review


Speech Translator

This App is on sale for Free today.  Typically it sells for $.99.  There could be great use, especially for written communication.

Pros

  • Free.
  • Good selection of Languages:
    • Afrikaans
    • Cestina
    • Deutsch
    • English (5 different dialects)
    • Espanol
    • Francais
    • Italiano
    • Bahasa Indonesia
    • Bahasa Malaysia
    • Nederlands
    • Polski
    • Portugues
    • PyccKNN
    • Turkce
    • Chinese
    • Japanese
  • Voice recognition is pretty good.  There were a couple missed captures, but overall it was accurate.
  • Very easy to use.
Cons

  • While the App allows you to speak a phrase, it does not speak the phrase in the language the phrase was translated in.  If you are unfamiliar with a language, this will not be as useful as it could be.
    • However, if you are traveling and able to speak the phrase and show the person what you need, they would have the ability to read in their native language.
  • Limited functionality
    • It would be great to have more features, such as copying the text
    • It would be great to be able to export the text to email or another application
    • Again, speaking the phrase back would be huge and very helpful

1 comment:

  1. The various pros and cons to the configuration type of iphone speech translator device.

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