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Vasco Electronics has previewed the next generation of live speech translation devices featuring: Artificial intelligence (AI) You can hear live translations in around 50 languages.
The Poland-based company previewed the device at CES 2024. Las Vegas last week. Vasco Translator E1 can translate 49 languages in real-time using earphones connected to your phone app, with voice translation coming from the earphones. For your convenience, translations are also displayed as text within the app.
Translator E1 can support conversations with up to 10 people using the mobile app. This tool allows each user to speak their own language and hear responses in that language. The earbuds fit in the ear rather than in the ear for hygienic purposes and can be used with two earpieces or one earpiece and a phone.
Tomasz Stomski, Vasco's chief product officer, told FOX Business at CES that the E1 is designed to be easier to use for long conversations than the Translator V4, and that it is “great for quick conversations, such as when traveling or when you need to He said that it is more convenient for “conversation”. To finish something quickly. ”
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Vasco E1 Translator earphones. (Courtesy of Vasco Electronics)
“We decided to go for something more natural, where you don't have to hold the device in your hand, just place it on the table, put on the earphones, set it to touchless translation mode and have a conversation.” Stomski he said.
Vasco currently sells the Translator V4, a handheld device that resembles a smartphone. live translation It can also be used to understand conversations and translate text from images taken by users. V4 can provide photo translation in 108 languages, text translation in 90 languages, and audio translation in 76 languages, but is most useful for translating short conversations.
Stomski said Vasco is using translation tools not only for customers who travel regularly, but also for expatriates, customers working in international teams, or families with language barriers because their relatives are from different countries. He said he hopes to be able to meet customer needs as well.
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Vasco E1 Translator and earphones are included in the case. (Courtesy of Vasco Electronics/Fox News)
Vasco Translator E1 is expected to be available in the US in the second quarter of this year, but is expected to be available in March of this year. in europe. It is also compatible with Translator V4 for users who want to use both devices.
Stomski explained that AI is used to identify human voices and remove background noise that can interfere with live translations and transcripts produced by devices.
“Of course, all the translations out there are related to AI, but we start with earphones. We have a model here that helps us recognize the human voice. Because we're checking. If it's a human voice or something like a car or a dog, we use an AI model,” he said.
Vasco V4 translator. (Courtesy of Vasco Electronics/Fox News)
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Stomski added that the device uses several models from different providers in addition to in-house solutions for cross-checking voice translation and image-to-text translation that Vasco's tools can provide. I did.
“We constantly check the quality of every pair of translations because we cannot translate in a common language,” he explained. These translations are sent to Vasco's cloud and help semi-automatically test the approximately 6,000 languages covered by the device before humans check the results.
