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The team is targeting the application to be used by tourists and frequent international travelers. “With Wordify, however, you can now translate signages, street names and signs, restaurant and establishment names, product labels and more from the native language of the country to the language you can understand by simply taking a photo of the foreign language text and having it translated even without internet connection,” added Faelnar.

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Even if you have the text-based input translation application, the challenge is how to type the text that needs translation in the first place,” said Nick Faelnar, who was team presenter. “We found out that this was actually just a small part of a worldwide problem in language diversity.

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It was something that everyone in the team can relate to given the popularity of comics and animated movies and series produced by countries like Japan.Īs they studied and did further research, they were able to identify other problems that they can solve with the mobile app. “Wouldn’t it be nice to have an application that allows us to just take pictures of the Japanese texts in raw chapters in mangas and translate it to English so we no longer have to wait for the translated version of the chapter?” Who knows? Maybe we can find the next technopreneurs from this current batch of SWEEP winners,” said Earl Valencia, president of IdeaSpace and concurrent head for corporate innovations and strategic development at Smart. Applications like Wordify which solve a basic need using technology can potentially be incubated through Ideaspace to become a commercial product. We feel that some of these ideas from SWEEP have the potential to do this. “We have seen great ideas from universities that grow to become large global companies. IdeaSpace Foundation is the early stage incubator of the First Pacific group of companies, which include PLDT and Smart. It is the entry of the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) for the 9th SWEEP Innovation and Excellence Awards where it got cited as best business plan and was chosen as the first-ever recipient of the IdeaSpace Award. USEP’s mobile app Wordify hopes to solve the global language diversity via translation using image processing.