Aug

foreign language translation for the iPhone by CoolGorilla

Posted by: nick

in Communication, Gadgets, Reviews, Software, iPhone

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In my quest for cool stuff I came across a mobile translation tool for the iPhone. It is a web-based tool that provides common phrases translated from English into French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

The coolest part is that they provide you with audio clips of the phrases, so that you can listen to the phrase a few times and practice saying it.

I found the program extremely simple to use. They did a great job creating a custom interface for the iPhone.

Like all iPhone applications, it is web-based, which means you’ll need to have WiFi or EDGE access to the internet. I don’t know what coverage is like for EDGE network in Europe and I’m not travelling to Europe anytime soon, but perhaps CoolGorilla’s newest translator could help me when I visit that fancy French restaurant in town?

They also make an iPod version, and versions for various Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones, which I haven’t tried.

BTW the link from your iPhone is http://www.coolgorilla.com/iphone or for their main site, click here Also, when you visit the page, be sure to click on the “Talking Phrase Books” It doesn’t look like a standard web link so I had to click around to find it.