Seattle, WA January 8, 2010 – The latest release of PicTranslator, an iPhone app that turns the iPhone camera into a global translator, will make negotiating the 2010 Winter Olympics a little easier for athletes, families, and fans with the addition of new languages.

PicTranslator turns the iPhone camera into a point-and-shoot translation tool. Foreign navigational signs, menus, maps, etc., can be translated with the push of a button – no phrasebook lookups or typing of foreign text required to understand and read printed text.

Travelers simply take a picture of the printed text to be translated with their iPhone and within seconds the translated text appears on their iPhone translated into one of 51 languages the user has selected. PicTranslator currently supports text translation from Czech, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Pronunciation of the original text is available for French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.

The original version of PicTranslator released in late October, 2009, used state-of-art OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to translate text from 16 languages into English. The current PicTranslator version now offers translation into 51 languages. The additional languages will benefit Olympic athletes, visitors and all international travelers that are unfamiliar with English.


Enhancing PicTranslator to support translation into a variety of languages in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics was a high priority

“Enhancing PicTranslator to support translation into a variety of languages in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics was a high priority for the Fotozio development team,” said Justin Wilcox, CEO of Fotozio. “We’re very excited to be able to provide not only Olympic attendees, but all international travelers with the ability to translate text into their native languages.”

PicTranslator can be purchased through U.S. and international iTunes App Stores. The PicTranslator Video shows the app in action. A complete list of all translation languages can be found on the PicTranslator website – www.pictranslator.com on in the app description in the iTunes App store.

Fotozio is focused on developing high quality mobile applications that address real world challenges.

Safe Travels and Happy Translations!

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