The Defense Department’s Phraselator

The Phraselator made by Voxtec is a portable handheld speech translation device used by soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When the soldier says a phrase, the phraselator accurately repeats the phrase in the language of choice. The device runs on Windows CE.NET 4.2 with a 400Mhz Xscale processor and SD cards full of language translation data. Voxtec is said to be planning a less expensive version for travellers. Universal translators, here we come!

Originally published on Pocketnow on May 9, 2004. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.