Investigative Study towards the Development of Mobile Language Translator

Mobile Language Translator is a mobile application to translate from English language to Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysia’s National Language) and Bahasa Indonesia; and vice versa. In addition, two other language translations have been added namely English to Mandarin and Tamil. It provides categories of commonly used words and phrases. As such, tourists can rely on mobile phone for communication purposes. Mobile dictionary allows for word and phrases search as a better traveling guide. This application will have the functionality of pronouncing the words and phrases and it includes images to further illustrate these words or phrases where applicable. This application is anticipated to overcome the language barrier among tourists, who are visiting our country. Subsequently, by using this application they are able to integrate with the local people and get the right information. There are many different hardware components found in mobile devices so their applications are developed using different software architectures. It is made more complicated because users of mobile applications have diverse preferences, so extensive improvements to traditional system development methodologies are required in order to keep up with this demand.