What Is Our Translator Exactly?

Understanding what our translator really is can be most easily explained by going through the process.

1) You speak Navajo and/or English using your computer (with our software)

2) Our software translates your voice so that the other person hears you speaking the other language.
In other words, if you speak English into the system, with only a slight delay, the person will hear your voice speaking Navajo. If you speak Navajo into the system (again with a slight delay) the other person will hear your voice speaking English.

This can be used to make it easier for an English speaker to be understood by Navajo elders that are more comfortable in their own language. It can also be easier for Navajo speakers to be understood by an English speaker.
Finally and just as importantly, for an English speaker, it can become easier to learn Navajo when their hear their own voice translated (almost) live to Navajo. This way you year your own words as they should sound in your own voice in Navajo. You know what you said and therefore can learn the words that would be the same meaning.

This facilitates our language education component where people can actively learn how to speak a given Native American language using rapid learning conversational methods.

Understand that we are a Native American owned and managed organization. This isn’t just some white people trying to do something they think might work for our people. We know what works because we are Native American ourselves.