Speeek is an app that can recognize up to 1,500 spoken Japanese phrases and translate them into either English or Chinese. Pocket Babel Fish? Please bring it on. And so the utility of the iPhone increases even more.


This is, of course, only for Japanese speakers, and it only covers basic hello/goodbye/where is the bathroom type phrases, but this doesn’t seem like too far of a leap for Google’s voice search app, which would be pretty exciting.

Even if it didn’t read the words back to you, seeing your jibber jabber translated in close to real time into any one of Google Translate’s 34 languages, well, that app would be truly amazing. The app costs around $20 in Japan, and the English and Chinese versions are separate.

Truly groundbreaking, and will probably open up the door for even more language packs down the road.

Labels: iPhone

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