Docomo, a personalised mobile solutions provider, has launched its Jspeak face-to-face mobile translation service for smartphones and tablets, targeting travellers from abroad.

Jspeak will enable Japanese and non-Japanese speakers to get a translation as screen text and voice readout by speaking into a smartphone or tablet. Ten languages – Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai – can be translated into Japanese and vice versa.

Jspeak is available to mobile users from Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the US and the UK.

The service will offer a friendly interface and a pre-installed list of over 700 handy phrases for transportation, restaurants, hotels, shopping, hospitals and other common encounters. Users can create their own lists of favourite, frequently used phrases.

“We invite foreign travellers to experience the ease and convenience of international communication with our unique smartphone-based translator to make staying in Japan even more enjoyable,” said Hozumi Tamura, senior vice president, and managing director of smart-life planning department and global service planning Office at Docomo. “We expect Jspeak to enhance cross-cultural communication as the world increasingly turns its eyes toward Japan, host of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020.” – TradeArabia News Service