A New Age Of On-Demand Translations
There are numerous apps available today that can help tourists to navigate their way around new areas that they visit on their journey. These apps can enable them to translate almost any language around the world, helping them to read road signs, menus, transportation details, and more.
One startup in California is looking to transform the translation market space in a new way, by attempting to develop a way for travelers to translate their speech using just their own voice. The San Fran startup, referred to as BabelOn, is looking to use speech synthesis technology in order to enable the travelers to speak different languages.
The company has been working on this technology for over a decade now and they expect to have a prototype finally ready within a few months. However, it still could be several years before the project is complete and they turn toward mass production.
At the moment, the group is trying to raise some extra funds on an Indiegogo page, they've already raised about 22 percent of their goal to reach about $30k in funding.
One day, many people could be using this tech for a variety of purposes in order to translate language, in real-time on a Skype call, for virtual assistants, for voice over films and other work with film & game studios etc.
Right now, for those who are traveling who might need some help deciphering the language around them or communicating with someone else who speaks a different language, there are apps like Google Translate, iTranslate, Waygo, Voice Translator, and many others.
Many other translation tools and apps out there focus mostly on the words, but BabelOn is different in placing an emphasis on voice technology.
BabelOn claims that their technology is going to unlock the [full] potential of the human voice, analyzing it in such an accurate way that they are then able to recreate that same voice in any language with their technology.
Pics:
Pixabay
BabelOn via Indiegogo
Sources:
https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/22/babelon-is-trying-to-create-photoshop-for-your-voice/
https://thenextweb.com/tech/2017/06/23/new-tech-promises-translate-speech-language-using-voice/#.tnw_Us5AHn8C
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/babelon-movies-videogames#/
Like and followed :) Nice post I personally like to learn a little bit of some languages in my spare time for this demand exactly. Also spying on people speaking a foreign language in public is very fun
ive been thinking about taking up learning a new one just for fun lol :)
It is a lot of fun! You get to be a snoop in public. I call myself a trilingual and some lol
Yep, I totally love how I can instantly translate any language to English nowadays. It makes life so much easier. I had no idea what BabelOn was! Thanks for sharing!
good blog - i travel to Japan sometimes and need help with translation -- i hope it becomes easier over time - i am following now and upvoting
I would like an ear piece that translates a foreign language coupled with the coice changer. Of ciuese it would be cool if the ear piece have you the translation after you spoke it so that you could speak to the people yourself.
Interesting topic that was well done is supported by a vote
This tech is indeed helpful for tourists . It is impossible to learn a language in a short period of time
This app should be a must have for all the travel loving fellows. Fun raising is somewhat difficult but once people see true potential it will be matter of days to raise this capital.
Nice to know. 🙃
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Wow what an innovative technology! This is so interesting! Great post :)