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Meet Jeenie at IPW: A Live Interpreter in your phone—Part II
Last week, INBOUND introduced you to Jeenie™, the first “live interpreter in your pocket” App. Jeenie is the brainchild of Kirsten Brecht Baker, who will be sharing a booth (#343) with TourOperatorLand.com, a division of the NAJ Group, which publishes INBOUND. In our last issues Baker explained how Jeenie works. Essentially, she told us, “it’s three swipes with your thumb and you’re talking to a real person through facetime of simply audio.”
This week, we posed the question, “Why would anyone use Jeenie when there are auto-translate apps like Google Translate or ‘Speak and Translate’?” She answered: “When talking about language on a cellphone, it’s not actually about interpreting. We’re talking about people who speak the local language—in real time—to help you solve a problem. When you have 10 people behind you in line with 40 percent of them typing something into a phone, or with some of them turning the phone around to view, it’s a challenge. It’s not real time. Google language is great. I use it. But when they’re can’t handle speed, nuance or context … Jeenie works. It’s live. It’s real time.”
In the next issue of INBOUND, Kirsten Brecht Baker explains who Jeenie recruits as interpreters. For more on Baker’s professional background, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsten-brecht-baker-7b866/.
At a Glance: Nashville, Tennessee
Receptive Tour Operator of the Month
132 Boylston Street
4th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
617.236.1236
Founded in 1986, TourMappers is a full-service receptive tour company, wholesaling North American FIT product and customized group tour packages to the international tour operator. Its in-house staff is multilingual, and able to service tour operator clients in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, in addition to English. TourMappers offers the most and broadest range properties that are characteristic to various destinations, i.e. Lodges in the Northwest, Plantations in the South, B&Bs in New England. Additionally, it provides a wide variety of Self-Drive programs and Experiential Escorted Tours.
The TourOperatorLand.com website by the NAJ Group (it also publishes the INBOUND Report) has introduced both receptive tour operators, U.S. tour operators and international tour operators to travel product and services of U.S. travel suppliers and DMOs. Visitors to the website can use its exclusive Receptive Finder™ to find the right RTO. It is designed to help both the travel trade and travel suppliers find the right U.S. based receptive tour operator to sell their products on the international travel market place.
The receptive operators, who are vetted and qualified by the NAJ Group also take part in at least one of NAJ’s RTO Summits series. The Summits take place annually in Los Angeles, New York City and Orlando. The next Summit takes place October 24-25, 2018 in Orlando. For more information, visit: www.TourOperatorLand.com.
“Three Swipes With Your Thumb and You’re Talking to a Real person.”
New app that helps travelers with instant, real-time translation to Debut at IPW Denver. TourOperatorland.com, a division of NAJ Group, publishers of INBOUND Report, will introduce Jeenie™, the first “live interpreter in your pocket” App to the tour and travel industry from our booth (#343) at IPW this year.
The person driving the new product is Kirsten Brecht Baker, Jeenie’s CEO. A multilingual graduate of the Wharton School of Finance, where she received her MBA, Baker has been behind several start-up initiatives during the past decade. Jeenie, just five months old, is an outgrowth of another young firm, Global Professional Search (GPS), that was launched with the notion of matching employers with candidates who have language skills. Using technology and algorithms to make matching more effective, 
she sensed a real demand for language skills that could be addressed “every day in the palm of the hand.”
“We’re putting live human interpreter on anyone’s smart phone to provide them with language skills and cultural advice, she told INBOUND. “It’s uber for language services … for customers who need an interpreter right away.”
How does it work? Essentially, said Baker, “it’s three swipes with your thumb and you’re talking to a real person through Facetime of simply audio.”
More on what Jeenie has to offer in the next issue of INBOUND. You can meet Kirsten at IPW in Booth 343.
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