Waverly Labs, a New York- based company has announced the
launch of a new gadget that will allow two people who speak different languages to
communicate with each other almost instantaneously. Set to be released in autumn
of this year, the wearable device is designed to translate between Latin/romance
languages (additional languages will be available soon after), promising a
world without language barriers.
Utilizing the latest technologies in speech recognition and
machine translation, the earpiece would allow wearers to understand each other
despite speaking in completely different languages. Currently, the first
generation device only translates the conversation between two people wearing the
earpieces. However, the company has expressed hopes to introduce upgraded models
that would support translation of everything surrounding the user in the
future.
Although this might be the world’s first smart earpiece,
real-time translation technology is in fact not unfamiliar to the industry.
Currently, there is a Google Translate mobile application that allows real-time
translation, and Skype, a video and call services application that provides translations
between callers who are speaking different languages. A key feature that sets
this new invention apart is that it functions completely offline, unlike its
competitors who rely on internet connection. Nonetheless, it will be
interesting to see how this groundbreaking gadget will fare among all the tech giants
who are heading towards real-time translation.
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