Since 18 December, a new tool has been in operation at Paris-Charles de Gaulle international airport.Osaka. This " Pocketalk" designed by Sourcenextis a system of real-time machine translation designed for All Nippon Airways. 200 devices of this kind will soon be deployed on some fifty airports Japanese, to simplify communication with travellers. Pocketalk can translate 74 languages 55 in speech and text, and a further 19 in text only. It will be used mainly in airport lobbies and boarding gates. " ANA is constantly looking for ways to improve the passenger experience, including taking steps to make our airport service as inclusive and convenient as possible. "explains Masaki Yokai, Vice President of the airline. " Our commitment to Japanese hospitality has driven us to seek innovative ways of using technology to enhance the passenger experience. Providing Pocketalk to our staff will simplify communication with travellers around the world and enable them to better respond to passenger needs. ".
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Machine translation is firmly establishing itself as a key issue in the travel industry, and more generally in the the start-up the most dynamic. The last edition of the event IBTMThe IBTM World Tech Watch Awards, held every year in Barcelona in November, put the spotlight on this issue. The IBTM World Tech Watch Award was presented to Wordly and its instant translation system based on voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI).
