The phrase "a system that translates" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a system or technology that converts information from one form or language to another.
Example: "The software is a system that translates spoken language into text in real-time."
Alternatives: "a mechanism that converts" or "a tool that interprets".
The next stop is a system that translates the printed address and ZIP code into separate bar codes on the back and front of the envelope.
In addition to installing elevators with voice-activated buttons at the police station, the force issued each blind officer a special computer equipped with a Braille keyboard and a system that translates images on the screen into sound.
Three inventors for Siemens Information and Communications Networks in Boca Raton, Fla., have won a patent for a system that translates the file format of attachments before sending them to the recipient.
Head coach Tommy Amaker and the Crimson are making their third consecutive tournament appearance with a system that translates well to March: quality guard play, offensive discipline and consistent defensive effort.
We need a system that translates the expressions of influencers and their surrogates into the meanings and motives they harbor because what's more important than what they are saying is what they are thinking or planning to do.
Interface Engine – A computer/software system that translates information between various computer networks.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02151.002 Bacteria sense and respond to their environment through a chemotactic system that translates ligand binding (stimulus) into preferential flagellar rotation (response), leading to either running in a favorable direction or tumbling to find a more favorable direction (Hazelbauer et al., 2008).
Something is surely wrong with an electoral system that translates Labour's 29 percent of the popular vote into more than 250 seats in Parliament and the Liberal Democrats 23 percent into more than 50 seats.
The approach described here is implemented in a system called UNITRAN, an interlingual machine translation system that translates English, Spanish, and German bidirectionally.
Basically it's a text-to-voice system that translates all of your emails and some RSS feeds to voice.
It was established in 1998 as a nonprofit entity to take over responsibility for the system that translates domain names like yahoo.com into numbers recognized by the network.
