Spanish / English-speech app

This item appears on page 79 of the January 2010 issue.

With the Jibbigo software application (or app), you can speak/record a sentence or two of either Spanish or English into your iPhone 3GS and it will respond with both an audible and written (on the screen) translation. It cannot be used to translate a conversation on the iPhone.

Jibbigo has a vocabulary of over 40,000 words that are particularly useful to travelers and medical doctors. The software runs on the phone, itself, so it does not need to be connected to the Internet. The app, dictionary included, costs $24.99 from Apple’s iPhone store or visit www.jibbigo.com.