The speech translation app VoiceTra can translate your speech into a variety of languages. VoiceTra is available for free download and supports 33 languages. You can also verify the accuracy of the translation results with a user-friendly interface. VoiceTra will definitely come in handy as your personal speech translator, whether you use it to improve your travel experience or to welcome visitors to Japan.
■Features:
VoiceTra utilizes high-precision speech recognition, translation, and speech synthesis technologies developed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). It translates your spoken words into different languages and outputs the results in a synthesized voice.
Two people who speak different languages can communicate with a single device because the direction of the translation can be changed immediately. Text input is available for languages that do not support speech input.
VoiceTra is ideal for travel-related conversations and is recommended for the following situations and locations: ・Transportation: Bus, train, rent-a-car, taxi, airport, transit
Shopping: dining, shopping, and making payments • Hotel: Check-in, check-out, and cancellation ・Sightseeing: Overseas travel, serving and supporting foreign customers
*VoiceTra has also been introduced as a disaster-prevention, disaster-related app.
Although VoiceTra can be used as a dictionary to look up words, sentences are preferred because it interprets the context’s meaning to produce translation results.
Languages supported: Korean, Thai, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Myanmar, Arabic, Italian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Dutch, Khmer, Sinhala, Tamil, Danish, German, Turkish, Nepali, Hungary, Hindi, Filipino, Bengali, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Malay, Mongolian, and Lao Limitations, et cetera: Internet connection is required.
It may take a while to display the translation results depending on the network connectivity.
Languages available for text input are those that the OS keyboard supports.
The characters may not be displayed properly if the appropriate font is not installed on your device.
Please be aware that when the server is down, some functions or the application itself may be disabled. Users are responsible for the communication fees incurred to use the application. Please be aware that international data roaming charges can be expensive.
This application was developed for research purposes; targeting individuals to test it out when traveling, and uses servers that are also setup for research purposes.
The data recorded on the server will be utilized to make improvements in speech translation technologies.
You may test out the app for businesses, etc., but please consider using private services that we have licensed our technology to for continuous use.
Please refer to our “Terms of Use” for further details → https://voicetra.nict.go.jp/en/attention.html
