Economics, Finance and Information Technology

Give a more longer term perspective of Economic trends and the Macroeconomic and Monetary Interdependence of the Global Economy. With the Background of this approach the blog will deal with the implications for Investment decisions. The author believes that China and the Asia Pacific Region are and will be the powerhouse for the global economic growth for years to come. It will also cover IT because of its momentum driver for economic growth.

Monday 11 November 2013

Japan: Games speech translation system to be upgraded

The communications ministry plans to beef up the capabilities of its multilingual speech translation system ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

The system, dubbed VoiceTra, instantly translates voices input in Japanese, English, Chinese and other languages into other languages and reads them out. The technology can remove language barriers, according to communications minister Yoshitaka Shindo.It has already been practically applied to simple conversations with tourists in the form of a smartphone application.
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry aims to enable the system to translate conversations related to medical care and disasters.

Source: NewsOnJapan

Monday 11 November 2013

Japan: Games speech translation system to be upgraded

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