LINGUIST List 19.201: Handheld 'Phraselator' Translation Unit

LINGUIST List 19.201
Thu Jan 17 2008 Media: Handheld 'Phraselator' Translation Unit Editor for this issue: F. Okki Kurniawan <okkilinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Dave Sayers, Handheld 'Phraselator' Translation Unit Message 1: Handheld 'Phraselator' Translation Unit
Date: 17-Jan-2008 From: Dave Sayers <dave.sayerscantab.net> Subject: Handheld 'Phraselator' Translation Unit E-mail this message to a friend This PDA-like device was developed through the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for use in Afghanistan and Iraq by American soldiers for communicating with locals who spoke Farsi, Dari, Pashto and other languages. It is now being used by police departments in California, Florida, Nevada, to help with non-English speakers. Standard police commands are translated and loaded into the unit by bilingual police officers, then retrieved and broadcast by a simple English-language text or voice word search. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-translate16jan16,1,1648880.story Linguistic Field(s): Translation Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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