Yamaha Motor India introduces RevTranslator application

Yamaha Motor announced the launch of the English version of an innovative smartphone application called RevTranslator. This new smartphone application translates engine sounds of bikes into over 100 million different combinations of preset phrases to make the bike communicate to the rider. 

The English version of the free smartphone application is compatible with Apple and Android smartphones and can be downloaded via the App Store and Google Play respectively. Yamaha says that the RevTranslator requires a smartphone sound recorder to record the engine’s sound and understand the bike’s speed, the time of the day, weather and other complex information. Based on this information, it replies with one of over 100 million preset phrases. The engine’s translated emotions vary depending on the engine sound, the time of day and the weather. 

The users can choose from six different characters to represent the bike, including a male character or a female—the responses evaluated to be communicated are influenced by these personalities. Every time the user translates, the user can also accumulate points by using the application to unlock rare pictures of various Yamaha products used worldwide.