Lost in the metro? Paris translation app aims to help visitors

Passengers wait for the subway at the Palais Royal - Musee du Louvre metro station in central Paris. Travellers will soon be able to make use of Tradivia, an instant translation app able to handle 16 languages, with which metro operator RATP has equipped 6,000 of its staff across the network's stations. — AFP

PARIS: The Paris metro has launched an instant translation app ahead of next year’s Olympic Games to help hapless foreign visitors navigate the French capital’s urban transport system.

The meandering metro, featuring more than 300 stations whose names can be hard to find or pronounce even for natives, easily becomes a nightmare for anybody without fluent French.