Comments on: Jajah Launches Instant Chinese/English Voice Translation

By: Chinese Translation Services

Chinese Translation Services — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:52:42 +0000

I tried the service and it appears that they have been doing a fairly good job, albeit with room for improvements.

By: Chinese Translation

Chinese Translation — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:19:27 +0000

I guess this was just for the Olympics and has been discontinued since…
I wonder if the system worked with person speaking English with different accents.

By: chinese translation

chinese translation — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:14:59 +0000

maybe it’s too later for me to find this !Instant Chinese/English Voice Translation is sound very cool but it will be very hard to handle! believe me , i know the translation bussiness

By: Cindy W

Cindy W — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:18:48 +0000

I attempted to dial the number listed on its website: 1-718.513.2969. Instead of Jajah Babel, I got greeted by a sales pitch for Jajah Direct. Did this service get pulled?

Please let me know I think it’d be great to see it so I can test out.

By: Chinese Translation

Chinese Translation — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:38:47 +0000

Good idea, but probably impossible to implement efficiently.

By: Chinese translation services

Chinese translation services — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:59:54 +0000

It’s very useful for Chinese English translation!

By: Blurring Borders » Blog Archive » New Developments in Multilingualism

Blurring Borders » Blog Archive » New Developments in Multilingualism — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:07:46 +0000

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CLR XIV : La Cofa - Blog de Vigilancia Tecnológica — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:39:00 +0000

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By: Chinese translation

Chinese translation — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:31:18 +0000

That save much money!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:09:10 +0000

Try https://lingpal.com, their service is free during the 08 Olympic for registered users. If you will no use the service much and just want to give it a try for comparasion, here is a promotional pin (if someone else is using it you will have to wait until they hang up) “Olympic888″ or “6596742888″.

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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:16:23 +0000

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By: Basic Thinking Blog | Wochenende 2

Basic Thinking Blog | Wochenende 2 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:44:21 +0000

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By: Will

Will — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:16:47 +0000

I’m a native Chinese speaker with a British English accent

I gave Jajah a go today… it’s pretty much screwed even with the English-to-Chinese translation of the most commonly used tourist phrase, ‘Can you tell me where the toilet is, please?.

Anyway, it will be a good laugh though seeing a tourist handing their phone to a puzzled waitress shouting out an incomprehensible translation.

By: NGT News: Coke’s Olympic Bluetoothing, Jajah Mobile Translating, Xbox Urban Gaming

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:15:42 +0000

[...] Jajah Launches Instant Chinese/English Voice Translation [TechCrunch] Right in time for English-speaking travelers embarking toward China for the Olympic games, Jajah releases its instant English-to-Chinese and Chinese-to-English phone translation. While the translation is not perfect, it gets your point across which is definitely better than funny-looking hand gestures. [...]

By: Vridhi

Vridhi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:22:23 +0000

I reviewed this service a couple of times today and it’s pretty awful. I asked it it translate “Hi How are you” and it spit out the “Try again later” message at least 5 times. I don’t think this is anywhere close to near-to-instant translation and they should not launch a service if they are not ready.

By: Jajah’s translation service &#8212 Matt’s Waste of Your Time

Jajah’s translation service &#8212 Matt’s Waste of Your Time — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:44:27 +0000

[...] is an app that works over the phone, but acts as a translator between people in real life. From TechCrunch:”After speaking your message into the phone, you hand it to the person you’re speaking [...]

By: Loren's Mom

Loren's Mom — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:24:45 +0000

One of the problems with Japanese is that a lot of things are not explicitly said but implied by context. This makes machine translation more complex because it can’t be done sentence by sentence independently. Context has to be preserved across sentences.

By: New Developments in Multilingualism « Blurring Borders

New Developments in Multilingualism « Blurring Borders — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:53:54 +0000

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By: Jajah and Jajah.Babel: Misterchou is Jason Chou

Jajah and Jajah.Babel: Misterchou is Jason Chou — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:20:29 +0000

[...] you lucky enough to witness the Olympics firsthand or are traveling to China for the next semester, Jajah.Babel is a pretty impressive voice translation tool that you should try out. Jajah built this service in [...]

By: tr

tr — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:46:47 +0000

* calls jajah *

“i’m choking to death on this smog. help!”

* jajah translates *

* great firewall *

“i love china. such clean, pure air!”

By: Yosef

Yosef — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:15:27 +0000

This does NOT understand a british english accent, but in theory, is very cool!

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:43:02 +0000

I’d rather just use my C3PO.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:22:55 +0000

With a US number (international call) and what appears to be a long delay or a message telling the customer to call back this seems to be fairly useless. There are live telephone interpreter services in China that could provide a far superior service without making an international call.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:27:37 +0000

No, overall there are more Mandarin speakers. However, the overseas Chinese-speaking population is often mainly Cantonese speakers due to historical immigration patterns.

By: Dan Evensen

Dan Evensen — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:57:48 +0000

I doubt this will ever be popular. Chinese is a language with a rich vocabulary and history, one in which there are multiple ways to say the same thing, each subtly different from the other.

As a fluent Chinese speaker, not only can I assure you that it’s not the hardest language in the world for native English speakers to learn (tones be damned), but I am also certain that immediate English – Chinese translation will never work well.