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As a kid I used to be quite fascinated by all those fantastical gadgets that were flaunted in science fiction movies or television shows. One such gadget was the language translator that used to translate speech from one language to another thus allowing people who were not conversant in each other’s languages to have effortless conversations. In the past few decades the world has seen many gadgets of science fiction making their transition to reality, and it was just a matter of time before such a language translator made an entry.
Jibbingo is the name of a new bidirectional speech translator which is now available in Apple’s App Store. It is priced at $24.99 and can be used in the iPhone, as well as the iPod touch. Jibbingo can translate speech between two languages enabling people who do not share the same language to understand each other through conversations (limited ones though). And all this can be achieved without having to fiddle much with the settings or tapping too many onscreen buttons.
At present Jibbingo functions on a vocabulary of 40,000 words, most of which have been selected based on their frequent usage by travelers and doctors. However one requires an iPhone 3Gs to utilize the Jibbingo’s full potential. For other devices one would have to be satisfied with unidirectional translation. Overall it’s just the kind of language translation gadget that many people around the world were waiting for – not only is it simple and intuitive but also does a pretty decent job of recognizing speech and translating it accurately. There is plenty of scope for improvement – a larger vocabulary and list of supported language being foremost but as a starter it’s a great app.
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