Seibu Railway Co. is planning to introduce on Monday an interpretation device that can display conversations between passengers and station workers at Seibu Shinjuku Station.
The device is a transparent panel through which passengers can see station employees while conversations are simultaneously interpreted and displayed as text.
Station workers can see passengers' words in Japanese and passengers can see station workers' words translated into their language while looking at each other through the panel. It can handle 12 languages, including English and Chinese.
