Jibbigo iPhone app translates from English to Spanish and back again

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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[blef Posted Oct 30th 2009 11:53AM]

Desgraciadamente, en el pueblo de Estados Unidos no entienden la diferencia entre los mexicanos, latinos, hispanos y españoles.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 30th 2009 11:55AM]

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.

[Ichinisan Posted Oct 30th 2009 12:07PM]

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);

[Ichinisan Posted Oct 30th 2009 12:10PM]

I also have a "Find in page..." function done this way.

Love it!

[Ichinisan Posted Oct 30th 2009 12:12PM]

Well, I guess this app isn't really for translating web pages...

[Peter F Posted Oct 30th 2009 12:35PM]

Oh, nice advertisement.

[Oli D Posted Oct 30th 2009 12:43PM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 30th 2009 12:36PM]

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

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 30th 2009 1:16PM]

Didn't know you could SPEAK to the Google translation service...

[albertocab Posted Oct 31st 2009 8:09AM]

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.

[magallanes Posted Oct 30th 2009 1:19PM]

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!

[kingu Posted Oct 30th 2009 1:57PM]

It even does innuendo.

[Neutral Posted Oct 30th 2009 2:04PM]

How sick n evolutionary.
Wonder y it didn't land on android nokia bb pre htc first.
Exactly. Part of thriving ecosystem.

[Nicky G Posted Oct 30th 2009 8:23PM]

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. :-)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 31st 2009 3:58PM]

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.

[Blackfeather Posted Nov 2nd 2009 2:14PM]

"¡Primero!"

oh crap - did I miss it?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 7th 2009 6:57PM]

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