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The Inquisitr » Technology: New app Babelshot spares you foreign country restroom shame
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RT @dresdencodak ... talking to @rstevens about how [iPhone could translate photos] & then we find an app http://bit.ly/ns9Al #itsthefuture 30 days ago |
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I'd take Babelshot with me to Tignes if I had an iPhone. http://www.macworld.com/article/143550/2009/10/babelshot.html 11/5/2009 |
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#Babelshot är ju asgrymt! http://www.macworld.com/article/143550/2009/10/babelshot.html 10/29/2009 |
New app Babelshot spares you foreign country restroom shame
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... and seeing a man (or perhaps lack of men) at a urinal, who may then begin shouting at you in a language you don’t understand.
If you’ve got an iPhone, you can avoid the inconvenience of being American not being able to speak/read signs in other languages now with the Babelshot app. Most likely named for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Babelfish (and not the AltaVista translation service of the same name) Babelshot “reads” pictures of signs and other print materials like menus and ...
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... Traveling to a foreign country? There are lots of apps that allow you to type something in one language and have it translated into another language, but if you don't want to type, Lex Friedman of Macworld reviews a $2 app called Bableshot. Take a picture of some text with your iPhone and the app will scan the picture to find all of the text, and then translate that text into English. I haven't tried it yet, but this sounds very useful. ...
