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Let Your Cell Phone Do the Talking When Abroad

XS2TheWorld is the perfect mobile translator

By Elena Balan, Communications News Editor

13th of July 2007, 08:32 GMT

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One major problem when traveling abroad is that of not knowing the foreign language. XS2TheWorld is a new application for mobile phones which will turn your handset into a personal translator.

Learning some common use sentences might be a

solution, but often proves impossible or might be useless if the pronunciation is not perfect. There's no need to worry about this type of matters, as a program has been developed to do all these things for you. XS2TheWorld contains up to 300 phrases for each of the seven languages that it supports.

Among these languages, some are extremely difficult to learn, even through a longer period of time. It includes Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Duch, Spanish and Thai. All phrases are stored on the personal mobile phone, which means that the user does not have to connect to the Internet every time he needs to use this service.

Such an application makes it extremely easy to get around in a foreign country without using the old-fashioned phrase books. After all, they could never offer the correct pronunciation of the words. One thing that XS2TheWorld additionally brings is a city guide, with a list of hotspots within the city. This service too works with spoken addresses and does not need typed text.

"Even if we can find the words we need in a phrase book, trying to ask where is the nearest cash machine is in Mandarin is beyond most of us. The ability of the mobile to speak clearly for you has shown some amazing results. People warm to you. It becomes a point of interest and communicating and getting what you want much simpler", observed Sander Munsterman, the inventor of the XS2TheWorld application.

XS2TheWorld will be available for an online purchase for the price of 5 pounds. The first 5,000 people can download it for free.

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