IRiver Dicple offers voice recognition, translation and text-to-speech between English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean

January 24, 2005 Korean personal electronics manufacturer iRiver has released yet another convergent device onto its domestic market. The oddly-named pocket-sized Dicple is designed for travellers with voice recognition in four languages, language translation, text-to-speech, voice recording, MP3 player and FM radio. The combination of capabilities seems ideally suited to travellers, given that it appears capable of enabling communication between someone who speaks only one language and someone who speaks only another language in any mixture of English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The dictionary has a total 2.9 million word vocabulary covering the four languages, which should be enough to cover most conversations.

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