A co-worker mentioned a new iPhone app to me that seems like the iPhone Universal Translator everyone had the idea for, but that was really hard to write. We’ve always dreamed of having a device like the babelfish in A Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the translators the Guild Navigators used in Dune, or the Nicholas Negroponte-prediction of translator devices we’d all be wearing around our necks.
Most apps will translate text that has been input by the user, and there are some mashups that require awkward user-interactions, but Jibbigo is the first app I’ve seen that breaks the holy grail of sound-to-sound translation.
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