EARBUDS THAT TRANSLATES LANGUAGES IN REAL TIME
One look at Pilot and it’s not so hard to see why they achieved the goal, they called pilot “The World’s First Smart Earpiece”.
Pilot is a set of wireless earbuds that performs automatic language translation, the Pilot earbuds connect via Bluetooth to a smartphone app and the app does the translation in real time, passing the content to the listening party. The earbuds capture speech from one person then sends that speech to the smartphone app. Once the app gets the content, it translates what was spoken and then sends the translated words to the other person’s earbuds. It does this while still listening if the first person continues to speak.
Pilot will also offer a “Conference Mode” where people speaking different languages can all speak to each other. Along the same lines, the app can be told to feed the smartphone’s speakers so that translated content can be played to several people in a room at once. If high tech isn’t the preferred route, users can also use the app as a basic phrase book.
Pilot will launch with the ability to translate European Latin and Germanic languages, which are handled better by online translators like those run by Microsoft and Google. They plan to add additional languages in the Summer of 2017. Initially, Pilot will only translate the words spoken by someone wearing a set of the earbuds (paired with the app), but future generations will process and translate speech being spoken around anyone wearing the earbuds.
Waverly is not the only one working on this, when it comes to real-time translation; Google Translate and Microsoft Skype are also working on providing real time translation within desktop and mobile apps. What sets Waverly apart is putting translation into a small, wearable device you can take literally anywhere you go.
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