VoiceTra is a versatile speech translation application designed specifically for travel phrases, enhancing your travel experience or aiding in welcoming visitors to Japan. This free app supports an impressive 31 languages and boasts an intuitive interface that allows you to verify the accuracy of translation results.
Key Features of VoiceTra:
VoiceTra leverages cutting-edge speech recognition, translation, and speech synthesis technologies developed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). It converts your spoken words into different languages and delivers the translations through synthesized speech.
The app's ability to instantly switch translation directions makes it an excellent tool for facilitating communication between two people who speak different languages using just one device. Additionally, for languages without speech input support, text input is available.
VoiceTra is ideally suited for travel-related dialogues and is recommended for various scenarios such as:
- Transportation: Including bus, train, rent-a-car, taxi, airport, and transit.
- Shopping: Useful in restaurants, shopping, and during payment processes.
- Hotel: Assists with check-in, check-out, and cancellations.
- Sightseeing: Beneficial for overseas travel and serving foreign customers.
It's noteworthy that VoiceTra has been adopted as a disaster-prevention and disaster-related application. While it can function as a dictionary for word lookups, using sentence inputs is advised as the app interprets context to enhance translation accuracy.
Supported Languages:
VoiceTra supports a broad range of languages including Japanese, English, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean, Thai, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Myanmar, Arabic, Italian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Dutch, Khmer, Sinhala, Danish, German, Turkish, Nepali, Hungarian, Hindi, Filipino, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Malay, Mongolian, Lao, and Russian.
Usage Restrictions and Information:
- An internet connection is necessary for using VoiceTra.
- The speed of displaying translation results may vary based on network connectivity.
- Text input is limited to languages supported by the OS keyboard.
- Proper character display requires appropriate fonts to be installed on your device.
- Functionality or the entire application may be unavailable if the server is down.
- Users are responsible for any communication fees, including potentially high international data roaming charges.
VoiceTra was developed for research purposes, targeting individual travelers to test and improve speech translation technologies. The data collected on the server is used to enhance these technologies. While the app can be tested for business purposes, for ongoing use, consider private services that have licensed our technology.
For more detailed information, please review our "Terms of Use" at https://voicetra.nict.go.jp/en/attention.html.
What's New in Version 9.0.4:
Last updated on August 20, 2024, this version now supports Android 14.
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