This only works if your mobile is an NEC, however, which doesn't apply to many of us Brits. Still, NEC's new application is still interesting, being a text-to-voice translation system with a vocabulary of more than 50,000 Japanese words.
Users speak them into their phone, and then see them converted to English text in a couple of seconds. The idea is to focus on the most commonly used travel phrases, such as 'Where is the nearest station?', 'How do I get to Buckingham Palace?' and 'Why is everyone on the tube so grumpy?'
Japanese tourists love visiting London, so there's a decent-sized market for NEC's application when it is officially released. We'd love to see one go the other way, to help us go to Tokyo and not look like idiots, but maybe that's next on NEC's 'To Do' list.
(via Engadget Mobile)
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