Smartphones are getting smarter. Maybe nearly as smart as a multilingual interpreter.
This month, NTT DoCoMo Inc. began its second trial of a translation service that converts Japanese into 10 languages — English, Korean, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Thai and Indonesian — and vice versa.
Japan's biggest telecom carrier said the service seems to have high potential, especially among companies that regularly communicate with foreigners.
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