VoiceTra+ is a speech translation application for travel phrases and can translate spoken phrases into different languages.

Using the multilingual speech translation engine developed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), VoiceTra+ covers 21 different languages.
We hope that this application will be a useful way for you to make your trip more enjoyable!


Languages:
- The languages which support speech input and speech output are as follows:
Japanese
English
Mandarin
Korean

- The Languages which support translation are as follows:
Japanese
English
Mandarin
Taiwanese Mandarin
Korean
French
German
Hindi
Indonesian
Italian
Malay
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Tagalog
Thai
Vietnamese
Arabic
Dutch
Danish

Languages which support text entry are those written above for which there is keyboard support on the iOS device.


Function:
The two ways of speaking include placing the device near your ear as if you are talking on the phone or pressing the microphone icon in the lower section of the screen and speaking.

1) Placing the device near your ear and speaking:
This is only possible when using an iPhone. Otherwise, please use method 2 below.
Please begin speaking when the iPhone finishes vibrating. When you are finished speaking, please take the device away from your ear.
When the phone is taken away from your ear, the results are displayed in order from the top.

2) Pressing the microphone button and speaking:
Press and hold the microphone button located in the lower section and please begin speaking. When you are finished speaking, please release the microphone button. The results are displayed in order.

Please touch the pencil button on the left to enter text for direct translation. A text entry screen will appear. Please switch the keyboard to match the specified input language and enter the text with the keyboard you would like to translate.

Speech Recognition Results:
What you said. By touching the recognition results (single-tap), editing can be performed.

Reverse Translation Results:
If the sentence here has the same meaning, the translation is accurate.

Translation Results:
The translated results of what you said.
Holding your finger on the translation result will enable it to be copied.


If you wish to change languages, please touch the text for a language. Doing so will display the language selection screen. When bi-directional translation is possible (two arrows are displayed), the input language and translation language can be swapped by swiping them.


Playback is performed for languages which have speech output. Languages which have speech output are indicated with the device icon that has a speech balloon. The replay of translation results can be performed by pressing the playback button located to the left of the results.


If you use this application in the iPhone, please turn your iPhone vibration function on. On the iPhone in which use is intended, open "Settings," then go to "Sound." On that screen, please confirm whether or not the "Vibration" settings under both "Silent" and "Ring" are set to ON.

To enter text for translation, the keyboard for that particular language needs to be set beforehand. From the device home screen, navigate to "Settings", then "General", then "Keyboard", and finally "International Keyboards." New Keyboards can be added by pressing "Add New Keyboard..."


Please be advised that some functions, or the application itself, may become unavailable if the server is down.

The customer is responsible for any communication fees resulting from the use of this application. Please be aware that international roaming fees may be expensive.

Saved data may be used for the improvement of translation technology.