Football translation

May 17, 2010

A MAJOR pharmacy chain in South Africa has introduced a special new translation system for sick soccer fans during the upcoming World Cup. The Click pharmacies will use an online translation system operated by internet giant Yahoo!, called ‘babelfish’, to try to diagnose customers who don’t speak English. The foreign customers will type a sentence describing their symptoms in their own language into a computer in the pharmacy, which will then be translated into English for the pharmacist to dispense the appropriate medication. Pharmacists will in turn use the Yahoo! system to give dosing instructions to the customers.

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Pharmacy Daily | Football translation

Football translation

Other recent headlines

APC does away with CPD standards

Vitamin B6 to become S3

Falls prevention guidelines updated

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