Jibbigo was a mobile offline

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application that was developed by Mobile Technologies, LLC and Dr.

Alex Waibel Alexander Waibel (born 2 May 1956 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Waibel's research interests focus on speech recognition and translation and human co ...

, a professor at

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. Jibbigo is an offline voice translator and does not need phone or data connectivity to function. Spanish-English Jibbigo was released in September, 2009 as the first offline

Speech Translation Speech translation is the process by which conversational spoken phrases are instantly translated and spoken aloud in a second language. This differs from phrase translation, which is where the system only translates a fixed and finite set of phra ...

application. The company has since expanded its offerings to include ten language pairs sold on both Apple's

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and

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. In Jibbigo, the user holds down a record button and says a phrase. The phrase then appears as text in both languages and is spoken aloud in the target language. The app also includes an add name function, a background dictionary, and other features. On

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, it is compatible with

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for vision impaired users. Jibbigo was featured on an episode of "Popular Science - Future Of" by the

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in early 2010 and the

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episode "The Smartest Machine on Earth" in 2011. In August 2013, it was announced that

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was acquiring the company.

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