VoiceTra is a versatile speech translation application designed to facilitate communication during travel or when hosting visitors in Japan. It serves as your personal speech translator, enhancing your travel experiences by breaking down language barriers.
■Features:
VoiceTra harnesses advanced speech recognition, translation, and synthesis technologies developed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). It translates your spoken words into various languages and delivers the results through synthesized speech. The application allows for instant switching of translation directions, enabling two people speaking different languages to communicate effectively using a single device. For languages without speech input support, text input is available.
VoiceTra is particularly suited for travel-related conversations, making it ideal for a variety of situations and locations such as:
- Transportation: Bus, train, rent-a-car, taxi, airport, transit
- Shopping: Restaurant, shopping, payment
- Hotel: Check-in, check-out, cancellation
- Sightseeing: Overseas travel, serving and supporting foreign customers
VoiceTra has also been recognized as a valuable tool for disaster prevention and related scenarios.
While it can be used as a dictionary for word lookups, VoiceTra performs best when you input sentences, as it interprets the meaning from the context to provide more accurate translations.
■Supported Languages:
VoiceTra supports a comprehensive list of 31 languages, including Japanese, English, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean, Thai, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Myanmar, Arabic, Italian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Dutch, Khmer, Sinhala, Danish, German, Turkish, Nepali, Hungarian, Hindi, Filipino, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Malay, Mongolian, Lao, and Russian.
■Restrictions and Other Information:
- An internet connection is required for using VoiceTra.
- The time taken to display translation results may vary depending on network connectivity.
- Text input is supported for languages that the OS keyboard supports.
- Proper character display depends on whether the appropriate font is installed on your device.
- The application and some of its functions may be unavailable if the server is down.
- Users are responsible for any communication fees, including potentially high international data roaming charges.
- Developed for research purposes, VoiceTra uses servers set up for research, and data collected will be used to improve speech translation technologies.
- While businesses can test the app, for continuous use, consider licensed private services.
For more details, please refer to our "Terms of Use" at: https://voicetra.nict.go.jp/en/attention.html.
What's New in the Latest Version 9.0.4
Last updated on Aug 20, 2024
- Supported Android 14
