In-Ear Device That Translates Foreign Languages In Real Time
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James Gould-Bourn
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Most of us have found ourselves in the awkward situation of trying to communicate in a foreign language. Sometimes it’s funny. Sometimes it’s embarrassing. And sometimes it’s downright disastrous. But thanks to a new translation device that easily fits into your ear, the days of struggling to speak the local lingo might soon be a thing of the past.
The device is called The Pilot system and Waverly Labs is the company behind this brilliantly simple yet potentially groundbreaking idea. When it hits the shelves in September, the system will allow the wearer to understand one of several foreign languages through real-time in-ear translation. A handy app will allow you to toggle through the languages you want, and the selection includes French, Spanish, Italian, and English. It’ll retail for $129, and you can pre-order one here. Or you can just keep talking to people really loudly and slowly in English. Good luck with that.
More info: Waverly Labs (h/t)
The gadget comprises two earpieces that easily fit into your ears
It will allow real-time in-ear translations in French, Spanish, Italian, and English
“The Pilot” will hit the shelves in September and retail for $129
The device is said to translate speech like the Babelfish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
A handy app will allow you to toggle through the languages you want
The creator says he came up with the idea when he met a French girl. Here’s how it works in action:
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Hope they do a yorkshire one soon as our lass dunt av a clue wot im on bout half the time
Gi'oer, ya daft ha'pporth.
I dinna gi' a damn.
Will it translate Yorkshire to Lancashire and reverse without starting a civil war is what is more important.
a pricey addition to a trip though... might look weird too lol. i found a $1 app that you can kinda achieve the same results with. can find it at www.tripicons.com
I do think that we have a lot of un-documented cultural slangs in languages, and it is important to learn them, however I think this a very wonderful idea, and piece of kit for any traveler. How it will pick up some crazy accents when siri can barely understand "send a text to bob" I don't know.
That's a cheap, limited, cloud-based solution. A local solution would be much better.
I could make something similar and it wouldnt be too hard. Heres what id do, use some of the very good Speech to text programs avaliable out there to translate into text eg (dragon naturally speaking) and then use the text in a translator, and have the computer read back the translated string. This would not be fully local, but would safice for a solution to this problem
Lol you think Apple's algorithm is cheaper than this imaginary kickstarter? You think a dedicated language detection server is cheaper than an in ear local translation? A local solution could only be better if some kind of non-existent technology were to suddenly appear in the form of an ear bud, not just some earbud bluetooth link to google's translation API. This will be no more accurate or powerful than whatever API they are pulling the translations from, it's all theoretical on their kickstarter, this tech does not exist and once the funding is fulfilled, prepare to hear about how the millions of backers money has been spent on personal finances and the product can't be delivered as promised. You literally have no idea what you're talking about
Again, Star Trek predicts the future...And we're ahead of schedule!
And the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy used one too! So long and thanks for all the Fish!
And here is the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7B3Ypqpxh0
This was about 25 years after Star Trek first used Universal Translators.
Star Trek didn't predict anything. It inspired people to recreate the tech they liked as a child.
Star Trek was a TV show that showed us a possible future and advances humans may make in technology. So yeah, it did predict lots of stuff we are now realizing. Translators and tablets are just two items.
Star Trek failed to predict the internet...
What do you think the ship's computer was? "Computer, play Beethoven's Fifth" "Computer, calculate the distance between planet A and planet B." "Computer, list all known mentions of the word avocado in Medieval Klingon Literature." And so on...
The internet was already a footnote in history in the Star Trek timeline...
Hope they do a yorkshire one soon as our lass dunt av a clue wot im on bout half the time
Gi'oer, ya daft ha'pporth.
I dinna gi' a damn.
Will it translate Yorkshire to Lancashire and reverse without starting a civil war is what is more important.
a pricey addition to a trip though... might look weird too lol. i found a $1 app that you can kinda achieve the same results with. can find it at www.tripicons.com
I do think that we have a lot of un-documented cultural slangs in languages, and it is important to learn them, however I think this a very wonderful idea, and piece of kit for any traveler. How it will pick up some crazy accents when siri can barely understand "send a text to bob" I don't know.
That's a cheap, limited, cloud-based solution. A local solution would be much better.
I could make something similar and it wouldnt be too hard. Heres what id do, use some of the very good Speech to text programs avaliable out there to translate into text eg (dragon naturally speaking) and then use the text in a translator, and have the computer read back the translated string. This would not be fully local, but would safice for a solution to this problem
Lol you think Apple's algorithm is cheaper than this imaginary kickstarter? You think a dedicated language detection server is cheaper than an in ear local translation? A local solution could only be better if some kind of non-existent technology were to suddenly appear in the form of an ear bud, not just some earbud bluetooth link to google's translation API. This will be no more accurate or powerful than whatever API they are pulling the translations from, it's all theoretical on their kickstarter, this tech does not exist and once the funding is fulfilled, prepare to hear about how the millions of backers money has been spent on personal finances and the product can't be delivered as promised. You literally have no idea what you're talking about
Again, Star Trek predicts the future...And we're ahead of schedule!
And the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy used one too! So long and thanks for all the Fish!
And here is the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7B3Ypqpxh0
This was about 25 years after Star Trek first used Universal Translators.
Star Trek didn't predict anything. It inspired people to recreate the tech they liked as a child.
Star Trek was a TV show that showed us a possible future and advances humans may make in technology. So yeah, it did predict lots of stuff we are now realizing. Translators and tablets are just two items.
Star Trek failed to predict the internet...
What do you think the ship's computer was? "Computer, play Beethoven's Fifth" "Computer, calculate the distance between planet A and planet B." "Computer, list all known mentions of the word avocado in Medieval Klingon Literature." And so on...
The internet was already a footnote in history in the Star Trek timeline...