After a few issues with making sure that the voting poll was actually published (my fault), we finally have a winner in the productivity app category for the TUAW Best of 2011. That winner was Communilator Pro (US$2.99), a global translator app from RantNetwork.
The app has been very successful since release and does language translation in a number of different ways. First, it can take source text from typed input, email, instant messages and other sources and translate between 54 different languages. Next, it can provide high-quality spoken output for translations in 20 foreign languages, and it also has the ability of recognizing and translating foreign text captured by the iPad camera. The latter capability can