Printing in tongues

Edvarcl Heng | Sep 25, 2007

Fuji Xerox has a new concept printer that promises to translate on-the-fly.

The idea of a trilingual photocopier is pretty neat, though strictly speaking, it's really not since it can only translate Asian languages (Japanese and Korean) to English and vice versa.

But whatever its linguistic abilities, yakitori restaurants are going to love it. Why pay a language student peanuts to translate the contents of a Japanese menu to English when you can fork out a king's ransom for the same mangled translation?

The copier works by scanning a document (in the recognized language) before the built-in microcomputer translates the text and prints out a copy. We do not have any indication of its processing speed, though we are sure, as most translation gadgets go, that it's bound to get tongue-tied at some point.

Via uberreview

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