Jibbigo is a recently released
iPhone app which promises to help you out the next time you're desperately trying to make yourself understood by your Spanish-speaking compadres. The app is capable of recording a sentence and translating it -- essentially in real time -- back to you. As you can see in the screencap above, you can speak either Spanish or English, and the translator will do its work, displaying both your original and a translation into the other language. The dictionary contains about 40,000 words, and the app is aimed at travelers. Jibbigo also requires the
iPhone 3GS to make use of the bi-directional translation tools, and the app also reportedly functions a heck of a lot slower on anything other than the 3GS. The app is available now for $24.99.
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posted Oct 30th 2009 10:37AM
No entiendo.
Why did we need a whole post about this? I've been using a translator on my iPod since the app store first opened. What's the point of this garbage?
google translator does that with several languages. plus, it's free and you can use it on your android.
Trash.. I kept saying taco, and it wouldn't translate.
I kept saying "Gringo" and it would say "Cracker"... but what do saltines have to do with anything?
lol aardwolf
I just noticed this is not just a text translator but voice? That's really cool. Universal translators are coming... Crazy!
"and the app also reportedly functions a heck of a lot slower on anything other than the 3G. "
Surely you mean the 3GS... Because the 3GS is "other than the 3G". Maybe you're talking about 3G funny, like: "You must not use the Edge or the Wifi because it might be the slow."
imagine we all went through life misquoting people for the sole reason of picking fault with what they didn't actually say...
you are one zany mother fukker
I wish they had this for Japanese, Cantonese and/or mandarin. trying to learn Japanese now... damn difficult as hell, at least for me.
I thought iPhone apps were supposed to look cool and have a nice UI. How come they approved this?
uh, because it works? i mean i'm not sure because i haven't tried it, but not everything has to flash, bling and hos... wait, what was i talking about?
Why does it display a US flag if it's translating from English?
Because the US' national language is English?
Because maybe it's American English, instead of Queens English. We do speak English in America also.
Because US English is different to British English and etc.
if the top flag is american shouldn't the bottom be mexican?
If you look at the description of the app, you'll see it supports both British and American English. I don't know if the flag changes, though!
Queens English? Is that a dialect spoken in the New York borough? :P
@shaliron: Australia's national language is English too. What's your point?
@Kiwi616 and aino: Where does it state that the app will only translate US English?
You guys are idiots....QUEENS ENGLISH IS ENGLISH spoken in the UK.
You need to get a clue or get out of America ASAP and travel.
@Tim: Mexico is not the only country where most of the people speak Spanish.
There's also Spain (which it's the flag the screenshot is showing), Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Perú, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, etc.....................................
To reiterate....MAYBE...never said it did, just said maybe.
because US English vocabulary is miniscule (and similar to the program's built-in one). Half the words consist of "fuck", "ass", "yee-haw" and "sup". Real British English uses a much larger vocabulary, that Americans perhaps wouldn't understand.
@fLim: I believe Tim is referring to the fact that the US is the largest English speaking country and Mexico is the largest Spanish speaking country.
@jakem: That's probable, but as many have pointed out, there could be a way to select both languages, e.g. English (US) to Spanish (Mexico) or English (UK) to Spanish (Spain)...
@shaliron
The U.S.'s nat'l language is NOT english. There is no official language of the United States.
Silly islanders English is for 'Merica!
@Jakem, more people in China speak English than USA.
Just as a second language.
Mercia is part of England...
Point being that most users will understand that the US flag will represent English. What else is it supposed to represent? Get over yourself if you think that it means anything more.
And yes, I'm Aussies as well; I know what our national language is. Let's face it. This is an app which is probably going to be used by more Americans than anyone else.
darmok and jalad at tanagra
I don't know what's worse. That you quoted a ST:TNG episode.... or that I recognized it.
Darmok at rest
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Because maybe it's American English, instead of Queens English. We do speak English in America also.
LOL I see what happened to you, but don't worry, NO ONE'S JUDGING YOU!!!@@!
You can do the same thing on an Android phone.... for FREE. What a rip off.
Either link it or stop talking out of your ass.
This is a Carnegie Mellon multimodal speech interface project that's unique to consumer devices at this given moment. I'm sure at some future date the technology will make it onto every smartphone, but nothing of sorts exists on Android right now.
The software actually works, it's not a weekend freetard project to translate 20 common words.
When I first read the headline I saw a racist euphemism. :(
When I first saw the article, I though "maybe it just slows down what you are saying and increases the volume..."
yeah my mind transposed those b and g's too.
@thedman07: that's f'cking hilarious. You must be thinking of the American English to Universal translation feature coming in 2.0.
esta noche me emborracho
and a good emborracho it will be
Been a while since a useful app popped up. Although $25 for a single language is kinda pricey in my opinion.
http://translate.google.com
nuff said. Enjoy spending your $25 bucks...
Haha, did you even read the article? Translate.Google does not do voice translations on the fly.
As long as it doesn't lead to a "My hovercraft is full of eels" moment.
My nipples explode with delight!
Una aclaración: el español es originario de España (Europa). Esa es la razón por la que la bandera que se muestra en la aplicación es española. Un saludo.
Desgraciadamente, en el pueblo de Estados Unidos no entienden la diferencia entre los mexicanos, latinos, hispanos y españoles.
Así es, blef. Mis amigos estadounidenses sí lo entienden, afortunadamente, pero la mayoría de la gente no.
Y para completar mi comentario anterior añadiré que el español es el idioma más hablado de toda América (entendiéndose América como continente). Se habla en toda Centroamérica y en toda sudamérica excepto en Brasil (en resumen).
Un saludo.
AMAZING how topical this is.
I *JUST* added a bookmarklet to my iPhone that probably does it better without an app.
Create a bookmarks folder called "Tools" or "Functions" and add any bookmark there. Then rename it to "Translate" and paste this into it:
javascript:q=location.href;void(location.href='http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u='+q);
I also have a "Find in page..." function done this way.
Love it!
Well, I guess this app isn't really for translating web pages...
Oh, nice advertisement.
What are you talking about? The reporters are clearly telling their audience about this because it is a well written and good value App for the Apple iPhone (Only $199 on AT&T Contract). There is no grounds for speculation that the writers of Engadget are in any way encouraged fiscally to favour certain items of news above others, and to do so would be quite frankly foolish.
Yeah, android's got them beat here, multiple language availability, and its free!
And for some reason i feel that google's translation service is probably more accurate
Didn't know you could SPEAK to the Google translation service...
hmm, come t think of it...if am in an international country outside of the US and I use an any phone to translate via voice. Am getting mug. Some thing would happen in the US.
Mr. Herrera: Bueno. Recuerdan por favor, clase, siempre contestan en Español. Bueno? [he walks to the back of the room with a sign that says Juan es Alto] Senor Butt-head, ¿Como es Juan?
Butt-head: Uh, burritos.
Mr. Herrera: No no no, ¿Como es Juan? ¿Como es Juan?
Butt-head: Uh, guacamole.
Mr. Herrera: No, no. ¿Senor Beavis, Como es Juan?
Beavis: Um, spaghetti.
Butt-head: Heh heh. Spaghetti?
Mr. Herrera: Spaghetti? That's Italian, you moron! Dammit! You idiots have been in this class for almost a whole school year, and the only Spanish you know is what you learned at Taco Bell!! ..And Beavis can't even get that right! I'm gonna give you little bastards just ten seconds to come up with a sentence in Spanish, and if you can't, you're both going to the principal's office and you're both flunking. [pause] Well, I'm waiting.
Butt-head: Uuuuh.. [mocks Spanish accent] rendo-pordo-curdoh-nut-a-ben-yubarduhvuh Rico Suave. Huh-huh.
Mr. Herrera: Principal's office, now!
Beavis: .....Eh, Taco Supreme.
Mr. Herrera: Get out! Now!
It even does innuendo.
How sick n evolutionary.
Wonder y it didn't land on android nokia bb pre htc first.
Exactly. Part of thriving ecosystem.
I just bought this application because it sounded cool, and I am kind of in a dumbfounded state after playing with it for a few minutes.
Disregard the loser trolls. This is absolutely cutting-edge sci-fi shit, and it's amazing. And for a 1.0 release, I mean, it's only going to get better from here. I will be first in line when other languages become available.
Let me explain something, if you are too slow to understand what this application does -- it is a spoken language translator, to spoken language -- no typing. You speak English, it speaks Spanish. You speak Spanish, it speaks English. In my 3GS it takes about 3 seconds to translate a phrase. Almost everything I've said it seems to understand on the first attempt.
$25 too much money? Are you KIDDING? To be able to have a (basic) conversation with someone who speaks only Spanish, and me, as someone who doesn't speak a word of Spanish beyond "hola" and "bien"? REALLY? Give me a goddamn break.
Trolls, keep trolling. The rest of us will continue to get a kick out of living int he early 21st century, AKA, THE FUTURE. :-)
The best part is, is that i have 3 apps on my Android running g1 that can translate to and from 10+ languages and they're all FREE.
"¡Primero!"
oh crap - did I miss it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ealQk1lX4yw
Looks cool to me.... Wish it was cheaper ! $25 is steap for an app.... I am a paramedic and I believe this could help out alot with spanish speaking only patients !! I hope it comes available for DROID