thaiaan Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Can anyone recommend a good electronic talking translator?I know there are plenty of type-in-words type ones but want one where one just talks into the device and it says the translated phrase.Would love a cellphone and pda and digital camera and translator in one package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 I'd be amazed if you can get such a device. Would be great! I remeber years ago trying out the talking dics. I used to type dog, horse,come, and when they were exactly the same I said 'no thanks'. Can you get tonal ones these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boh Bpen Yang Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 I've not seen a Thai version, but, I had several years ago a computer program for Spanish. It used voice recognition and if you mispronounced a word it would not allow you to continue until you got it right. I would be very interested if there were on of these availible for Thai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 I would think an Elec translator would cause problems. I used a book and tape package by Linguaphone. I had difficulty hearing the ending of some of the words on the tape and thought some words like 'maak' had a silent 'k' sound. Especially when it would get lost in the proceeding word of 'Khap' or 'Kha'. So saying to my ma-in-law 'Khoopkhun maa' used to have her frowning at me quite often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajarn Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 I'd love such a device, but it sounds like an impossible device to work properly, at least without lots of training. I used to use a computer program that I talked into and it typed out my words. Pretty accurate if I was careful, but it took about an hour of reading various passages from some book to get it up to about 90% accuracy... I was transcribing recipes for my website, and it always had problems with "peanuts", as I recall... "Penis" is what got printed. Hope I caught all the errors... Theoretically, you can train such a program to translate into another language, but you'd need to train every individual word first, for this program... For the 'peanuts' problem, I trained it to type 'peanuts' when I said "booger" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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