Language translation devices will guide visitors on the Paris metro during the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.
Language translation devices will guide visitors on the Paris metro during the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, announced the Paris Public Transport System staff on France 24 on 31 January 2024.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympics Games will occur this summer from 26 July to 11 August for the Olympics and August and from 28 August to 8 September for the Paralympics.
During this period, the city of Paris will be moving locals and visitors around the city to get to Olympic events. There were 6.6 million tourists in 2019 during the cumulative months of July and August and 6.4 million in 2022. In 2023, the Office of Tourism in Paris estimated the number of visitors to Greater Paris at between 6.2 to 6.4 million for the same period. Paris is expected to receive about 3 million additional visitors during the Games in 2024, to reach an estimated total of over 9 million people.
To assist foreign visitors, the Paris Public Transport System (RATP) has developed a handheld, artificial intelligence (AI) powered device called Tradivia. It can translate from French into 16 different languages including Mandarin, Arabic, and Korean. The device will show the translated text and it will read the text aloud.
More than 3,000 RATP staff have been provided the device to assist transport passengers.
