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kluk 12-17-2010 02:10 AM

Insane Iphone App!
 
http://www.wimp.com/iphoneapp/

It translates languages such as spanish from your camera into english and vice versa in real time. No network required!!

Vale46Rossi 12-17-2010 02:55 AM

that is fucking awesome.

Vale46Rossi 12-17-2010 03:04 AM

Just bought it app is free

but spanish dictionary is another $4.99 bought that too.

Doesnt work on computer screen or hand written words but everything else works.

kluk 12-17-2010 03:13 AM

yeah! forgot to mention it was 5bucks for the english to spanish translation haha.

Greenstoner 12-17-2010 03:51 AM

shit, i feel so outdated with my blackberry

Hondaracer 12-17-2010 06:38 AM

Just downloaded it, don't have the Spanish to English but the reverse word barely works, I'm skeptical it ever works as good as the video
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Si 12-17-2010 07:45 AM

coulda sworn the first beach sign said "beach slut" at first for a moment

PJ 12-17-2010 07:52 AM

wow i am gonna download this right now

Psykopathik 12-17-2010 08:00 AM

looks like a fake vid to me. i dont think even my quad core PC can pull it off that fast

AzNightmare 12-17-2010 08:47 AM

So this is real?
I can't even comprehend the technology of how it does it???
wtf?

Let's say you're writing letters on a piece of paper, with the tranlslator on...
You could be seeing the letters change on the fly from viewing it through the phone??

Seeing different things as what you're physically writing down... MIND BLASTED.

Not only this, but it matches the font style that it's viewing...

ws6ta 12-17-2010 08:57 AM

mind = blown

Hondaracer 12-17-2010 09:14 AM

the only thing it matches really are big block letters like the examples used and they have to be pretty good candidates to work correctly

if they had french i'd probably buy it, but the spanish isnt very usefull considering nothing around here is in spanish

Bath Tussue 12-17-2010 09:21 AM

I am too cheap to buy the translations, but the backward text works somewhat OK on the computer screen

http://i1013.photobucket.com/albums/...e/aee018ba.jpg

InvisibleSoul 12-17-2010 09:29 AM

That is definitely some cool technology...

invader 12-17-2010 10:22 AM

hah could have used this for my spanish final

InvisibleSoul 12-17-2010 10:36 AM

After playing around with it a bit, I would have to say that the recognition will have to improve before it becomes truly useful. Even for the letter reversal demo, it was having lots of trouble showing the correct words... so it should have even more problems when trying translate sentences into another language, on the fly.

However, I stumbled upon some other options that may work just as well or better, but aren't quite as nifty...

Even the Google App can do something similar. You use the Google Goggles to take a picture of some text, it then does some OCR on it, and then you can choose to translate it into another language. The downside is that it requires an Internet connection to work.

urrh 12-17-2010 11:05 AM

amazing. one step closer to star trek style universal translators :nerd:

Shun Izaki 12-17-2010 11:20 AM

mmm... augmented reality...

when I had my iPhone4, i had a folder just for AR.... soccer ball to kick around, stars in the sky, AR tower D... LOL

RacePace 12-17-2010 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by urrh (Post 7231574)
amazing. one step closer to star trek style universal translators :nerd:

It'd probably be an easier app to do, speak Spanish into phone, replies back in English

Guy_LikeWhoa 12-17-2010 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by urrh (Post 7231574)
amazing. one step closer to star trek style universal translators :nerd:


check out the global voice translator on this phone. startrek style for sure
http://pomegranatephone.com/
:fuckyea:

kluk 12-17-2010 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guy_LikeWhoa (Post 7231780)
check out the global voice translator on this phone. startrek style for sure
http://pomegranatephone.com/
:fuckyea:

:haha: looks like a pad

asian_XL 12-17-2010 06:13 PM

come on...I want a japanese to english translator, watching japanese porn will be a lot more entertaining.

Manic! 12-17-2010 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guy_LikeWhoa (Post 7231780)
check out the global voice translator on this phone. startrek style for sure
http://pomegranatephone.com/
:fuckyea:

Invented by newfie's? Because when i hit release date it shows an ad for Newfoundland.

FN-2199 12-17-2010 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guy_LikeWhoa (Post 7231780)
check out the global voice translator on this phone. startrek style for sure
http://pomegranatephone.com/
:fuckyea:

:troll:

LiquidTurbo 12-17-2010 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul (Post 7231554)
After playing around with it a bit, I would have to say that the recognition will have to improve before it becomes truly useful. Even for the letter reversal demo, it was having lots of trouble showing the correct words... so it should have even more problems when trying translate sentences into another language, on the fly.

Yep. Advances in technology have to start somewhere.


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