We haven’t booked our tickets to go to the 2008 Beijing Olympics yet – 2012 in London might be a better fit for our meagre travel budget. But if we were going to China next year, we’d be sure to grab the Echo Translator application for our phones.
It’s a text-to-voice translator, so you construct a sentence by clicking on words in a menu, which the application then turns into an audio translation, which you can play to, say, a taxi driver or hotel receptionist who you’re trying to communicate with.
Anyway, Echo Translator has just been updated to include Mandarin, but it also supports 24 other languages. The basic version is free to download, while Echo Travel Pro costs money (either a one-off payment or a weekly / monthly subscription), but includes over 10,000 possible phrase combinations.
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