iPhone's Pic Translator translates for you

A new application for the iPhone allows you to take a picture of some text and then translate it. Not only that, with text-to-speech technology, it will pronounce the text as well.

With translation capability from English into 16 languages and pronunciation in FIGS plus Portuguese, the Pic Translator seems aimed at the monolingual American who ends up at a restaurant with indecipherable entrees. An interesting app—and at a cost of 99 cents, it seems worth a shot!

(Thanks to Fast Company for this item!

Posted by Donna Parrish on 10/30 at 08:49 AM

  1. With the benefit of hindsight, this was an idea waiting to happen: mash up OCR with machine translation and voilà, you have yourself a killer app.

    There’s at least one other company with such a product, the Russian e-dictionary publisher ABBYY: http://www.lingvo.com/products/?id=156892

    Posted by Michal Boleslav MÄ›chura  on  11/04  at  12:00 PM

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