Pocket PC now speaks Chinese

Apr 17, 2002

Ectaco, Inc. expands the range of its software based on the speech recognition technology. The new application, Partner® Voice Translator for Pocket PC English to Chinese is the most innovative tool for those need to communicate in Chinese.

The Pocket Voice Translator is an English-to-Chinese phrase bank that contains the most commonly used phrases especially selected to satisfy 80% of the communication requirements of travelers abroad. You say a phrase in English, and the application recognizes it and pronounces its Chinese (Mandarin) translation.

The latest speech recognition technology used in the Voice Translator allows you to immediately translate pronounced phrases without using a dictionary and to listen to clear, life-like pronunciation of the translation. This makes the application a powerful foreign language learning aid. With the Voice Translator, learning is natural and does not take much effort - by simply listening or repeating the phrases often, you will remember them easily. The application displays the pronounced phrase in Chinese Simplified or Chinese Traditional, as selected by the user.