LINGMO LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR POWERED BY IBM WATSON

The Australian start-up company, Lingmo International has brought the world one step closer to the science-fiction dream of a universal translator earpiece. The translator, One2One, which is powered by IBM Watson artificial intelligence technology is set to be the first commercially available translation earpiece that does not rely on Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connectivity.

With the imminent launch of the Translate One2One, Lingmo is poised to jump to the head of the class with a system that incorporates proprietary translation algorithms and IBM's Watson Natural Language Understanding and Language Translator APIs to deal with difficult aspects of language, such as local slang and dialects, without the need for Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connectivity.

The system currently supports eight languages: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Brazilian Portuguese, English and Spanish. The inbuilt microphone picks up spoken phrases, which are translated to a second language within three to five seconds. An app version for iOS is also available that includes Speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities for a greater number of languages.