VoiceTra(Voice Translator)
June 24, 2024
More About VoiceTra(Voice Translator)
VoiceTra, whether to enhance your travel experience or to welcome visitors to Japan, will definitely come in handy as your personal speech translator.
■Features:
VoiceTra utilizes high-precision speech recognition, translation, and speech synthesis technologies developed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). It translates your spoken words into different languages and outputs the results in a synthesized voice.
The translation direction can be instantly switched, allowing 2 people that speak different languages to communicate using a single device.
Text input is available for languages that do not support speech input.
VoiceTra is best suited for travel-related conversations and is recommended for situations and places such as below:
・Transportation: Bus, train, rent-a-car, taxi, airport, transit
・Shopping: Restaurant, shopping, payment
・Hotel: Check-in, check out, cancellation
・Sightseeing: Overseas travel, serving and supporting foreign customers
*VoiceTra has also been introduced as a disaster-prevention, disaster-related app.
While VoiceTra can be used as a dictionary to look up words, it is recommended to input sentences as it interprets the meaning from the context to output the translation results.
■Supported languages:
Japanese, English, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Korean, Thai, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Myanmar, Arabic, Italian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Dutch, Khmer, Sinhala, Danish, German, Turkish, Nepali, Hungarian, Hindi, Filipino, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Malay, Mongolian, Lao, and Russian
■Restrictions, etc.:
Internet connection is required.
It may take a while to display the translation results depending on the network connectivity.
Languages available for text input are those that the OS keyboard supports.
The characters may not be displayed properly if the appropriate font is not installed on your device.
Please note that some of the functions or the application itself may be disabled when the server is down.
Users are responsible for the communication fees incurred to use the application. Please be aware that international data roaming charges can be expensive.
This application was developed for research purposes; targeting individuals to test it out when traveling, and uses servers that are also setup for research purposes. The data recorded on the server will be utilized to make improvements in speech translation technologies.
You may test out the app for businesses, etc., but please consider using private services that we have licensed our technology to for continuous use.
Please refer to our "Terms of Use" for further details → https://voicetra.nict.go.jp/en/attention.html
Latest Version
9.0.3
June 24, 2024
NICT
Travel & Local
Android
3,863,058
Free
jp.go.nict.voicetra
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User Reviews
A Google user
6 years ago
I like it, but it needs improvement. Cause "the meaning of translation result" are so far from some words. Specially Burmese and Filipino. But thumbs Up! thanks ❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
A Google user
5 years ago
You should create a voice keybord as your app's voice recognition skill is even better than google especially in "Myanmar Language". I do hope you will create a voice keyboard because i love its recognition ability for Myanmar Language.😍😘
A Google user
5 years ago
This is a very good app. I will give 5 stars if the speech output can be adjusted. To slow down mainly. Otherwise a great app! Rob
A Google user
5 years ago
This app is very useful, it help me communicate with Japanese while I was visiting Japan last year. I also use it often to communicate with friend in Cambodia in Khmer language.
Marie
2 years ago
I love this App make me understand so many languages and It s fun. Chance to learn new language and communicated with Others. hope to upgrade All worldwide languages. Myanmar translate not excatly right but it's ok. Thank You for this App.
Slocum Chan
4 years ago
Should have a voice speed control...To help learning easier...If U are a beginner.. learning is a issue...what more with super speed speech..Thank You..
Theint Theint Thu
1 year ago
very nice and useful apps. I have been looking for very long time such an application.The voucd recognition is very good. I can't believe myself that app recognize my bad english ascent
Aleksandr Griboedov
1 year ago
Second world popular language, Spanish, is not available. Tried translating Japanese, not even close, none of the words were correct.
Keith Mole
1 year ago
As a host family to many diffrent students from around the world, I have found this app invaluable for getting across information and instructions..
ye linnhtoo
4 years ago
When translated, it's more accurate than other translation apps. If speech output settings have voice speed options , this app would be better.
jack wolf
2 years ago
So amazing, just 1 thing though. I would like to be able to read the english to japanese translation in romaji in addition to japanese written language to help me understand the pronunciation of the words.
A Google user
5 years ago
Really good app. Had a client come in who didn't speak English. This really helped communicate with him.. and explain what repairs he needed on his car also pricing. Worked well for the day. Not sure about long term use or glitches.
A Google user
6 years ago
Very happy that this app supports voice input and output of Burmese and is able to translate from and to Burmese! And it's done without Google voice input. Hope to see improvement of accuracy of the translation between Chinese and Burmese!
Ty
1 year ago
Amazing translator, I'm native Japanese and it translated from Japanese to English and English to Japanese perfectly, I wouldn't be able to do better. Amazing developers, amazing product. 5/5 stars
A Google user
5 years ago
Hi .. i am learning Japanese (beginner) and this application is very very useful. Few suggestions : 1. Feature to copy and share translated text 2. In case other language to Japanese translation .. displaying furigana and romanji along with result will make it more useful for non Japanese users Thanks
GB D
4 years ago
Was great initially but the app won't connect to my network anymore and hence useless. Everything else I have connects with no issues. I uninstalled and reinstalled, checked permissions, checked settings but same problem. This was the only app that accurately translated Burmese when it was working.
A Google user
5 years ago
good translation, no ads, big fonts and the app keep listening till you press stop so, unlike those apps that automatically stop listening if they don't sense anything within a few seconds, it's suitable for translations with long pauses between one sentence and the next.
MEL (She-Her)
1 year ago
Taje it down....This app does not support a lot of northern European and Scandinavian languages. It is also very inaccurate when it does translate. When I spoke in to the microphone to autodetect my language wich I could only put Danish as the closest to my Swedish (no, not the same really) it translated it in to simplified Chinese!!! I am glad I tested this app before using it with friends from different Nationalities.
Cat Dog
1 year ago
I've listened to the results (I'm multilingual), and I've got to say, most of the time it was correct. In some languages, you don't pronounce all letters, but in this app you have to, so this might confuse other people, so por favor, arreglalo. 4 stars. Would give five.
A Google user
5 years ago
Am impressed with the results, especially for short & clear sentences. I've done a quick comparison for several language pairs (English to & from Japanese, Spanish, French and Dutch) with Google Translate and found VoiceTra to be more accurate across the board and generally easier to understand. Too bad speech input is not (yet?) available for all the languages listed. I assume, and hope, that's because it's still a work in progress…
