Telenor SMS Translation

Continuing with the innovative tradition telenor presents SMS translation service. This service allows subscribers to translate any phrase from one of the 14 supported languages to another. The system has an Artificial Intelligence (AI) built-in that detects the phrase language without the user needing to specify the source language. All the user needs to do is tell the service in which target language the translation is required.

Another feature of this service is that it provides translation in the destination language characters as well as in Roman characters. For example, if Chinese Translation is required for ‘How are you?’, then translation will be provided in Chinese Text as well as Roman Characters, i.e. Chinese Text: ‘您好吗？ Roman Text: nin hao ma ？ This functionality ensures that Mobile Handsets that do not support certain languages characters may still use this service and foreign users may be able to read the Roman text easily.

How to use the Service?
The following command is to be sent to 808 to use this service:

‘target language codeSentence’

For Example, Send ‘Ar How are you’ to 808 to get Arabic translation of ‘how are you?’.

Following are the languages and their codes that are supported. The codes are simply based on the first two characters of the name of each language.
Language Language Code
Arabic Rs. 1.00
Chinese Free
English Rs. 5.00
French Rs. 5.00
German Rs. 5.00
Italian Rs. 5.00
Japanese Rs. 5.00
Korean Rs. 5.00
Norwegian Rs. 5.00
Portuguese Rs. 5.00
Spanish Rs. 5.00
Thai Rs. 5.00
Turkish Rs. 5.00
Urdu Rs. 5.00

Pricing:
Every SMS sent on short-code 808 will be charged at Rs 3+Tax.

Note:
Handsets that do not support a certain language will show that language’s characters in the form of boxes, weird characters etc. That is a handset limitation while the service actually sends the translation as requested.