Translator with Speech review: Windows Phone app bridges language barriers

March 28, 2014

I’ve demonstrated Window’s Phone’s predictive, heuristic text entry and voice recognition prowess to nearly everyone who’s ever pulled up a bar stool next to me, yet they still bang away at their iPhones and Android devices as if they’d never noticed. Go figure. Maybe Translator with Speech will get their attention. Not only does this app do a bang up job of translating both text and speech input into other languages, it speaks the translations.So who cares if your translator speaks? Say you’re on business overseas and having a hard time being understood through your thick American accent. With Translator with Speech you just type or speak the phrase you want to translate into the phone, turn on the speaker, and let the phone say it for you. Okay, it’s a bit geeky, but it works dagnabit. I tried this with both the Taiwanese couple who own the local coffee shop and my Spanish-speaking god-family. I possess smatterings of both languages (Mandarin, not Cantonese). All were in agreement—the phone was one heck of a lot easier on their ears than my ham-tongued linguistic efforts. I offered to make the phone their godfather.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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