As we reported earlier, Mario Hros a.k.a kexik has released a jailbreak tweak called AssistantExtensions, which seems to be the mother of all Siri jailbreak tweaks.
The jailbreak tweak not only allows you to open apps, send tweets, enable/disable Settings toggles, control brightness, respring Springboard etc., it also provides a framework for other developers to create Siri extensions.
Lingual is the first such third-party extension for AssistantExtensions. It allows you to translate phrases or text in to over 30 languages using Siri, which can be very useful while travelling abroad.
After installing the tweak all you need to do is say something like "translate [phrase] to [language]" or "what's [phrase] in [language]" and the tweak will show you the translated text in Siri in that language.
Lingual supports the following languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, French, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Haitian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
You can check out the impressive video of Lingual in action below:
Lingual is developed by CodeThemed and is available in Cydia for free.
Now, if someone can figure out a way for Siri to say the translated text in one of those 35 languages, that would make this jailbreak tweak even better.
Still haven't jailbroken your iPhone 4S using Absinthe jailbreak? Maybe it's time to review that decision.
[via @CodeThemed]
I would like that Siri speak Spanish…! Para preguntarle: Siri, Donde esta el Striper’s Club mas cercano….!
Siri donde estas mota?……
(ask siri what her fav color is ) =D
This by far has to be one of the best use of jail breaking I have seen to date. Functional, realistic, a true necessity for travelers to foreign lands. Not just some piece of fluff or piracy mumbo jumbo.
Totally agree man. I was telling people two years ago the next big thing was going to be putting your iPhone between two people who talk two different languages and having your iPhone or I guess now Siri being your translator. I can’t wait for this to have a “chat feature” great stuff.
LOL, get other languages too.
I love this. Great for living in Japan. Would love it to add the reading in romanji or kana for kanji like google translate does. Then I could read the whole translation!
is this better than google translate? google translate will speak on a lot of common languages.
Since it is a third party app, does that mean they can fish my info, even if my phone mobile password is changed
“Now, if someone can figure out a way for Siri to say the translated text in one of those 35 languages, that would make this jailbreak tweak even better.”
that would make this a killer app.