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The company claims to have developed Japanese-English/English-Japanese, automatic speech translation software that will run on single chip with power consumption low enough to be embedded in a mobile phone and able to perform the translation in near real time.
NEC says it has "verified the high-speed automatic speech translation processing capability of this software on NEC Electronics' MP211 application processor for mobile phones, at an operating frequency of 200MHz, proving that operation of interpretation applications is technologically feasible on small devices like mobile phones."
The software is claimed to support a 50,000-word vocabulary. It combines speech recognition, translation and speech synthesis of the translated text.
NEC claims that "the dynamic development of technology supporting automatic speech interpretation and translation to support communication between different languages is rapidly progressing."
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