VoiceTra4U app for iPhone and iPad

The Universal Speech Translation Advanced Research (U-STAR) Consortium (http://www.ustar-consortium.com/) is an international research consortium conducting research and development on a network-based speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system with the aim of breaking the language barriers of the world. Using this network-based S2ST system, U-STAR has developed a speech translation application, "VoiceTra4U," which implements ITU-T standardization protocols, F.745 and H.625.

The application allows you to input speech/text and have them translated into a different language on a single device. The application contributes to overcome the language barriers as well as communication modalities. For instance; it helps users to communicate with the visually-impaired via spoken word, or with the hearing-impaired via text input. VoiceTra4U is suitable for travel-related conversations at airports, hotels, shops, and restaurants. The application covers a total of 28 Asian and World languages (31 languages including dialects). The speech data collected from this application will be utilized to improve the speech translation technology being developed at U-STAR.