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.
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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#/