This Inexpensive New Smart Mask Can Amplify the Speaker’s Voice and Translate Speech into 8 Language

[Michie]

A Japanese robotics company has developed a smart mask that can amplify voices, transcribe dictation, and translate speech into eight different languages—and they will be available to the public as soon as September.

The C-Mask was designed by Japanese tech startup Donut Robotics to improve communication between airline workers and supermarket employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The mask, which is Bluetooth-connected to the user’s phone, is capable of translating Japanese into Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, English, Spanish, and French.

The company originally developed their AI-based translation technology for their “Cinnamon” robot to assist international travelers at the airport. Since most of the nation’s airports were forced to close after the coronavirus outbreaks, the company applied their software to masks so that industry workers and healthcare providers could speak more clearly from behind protective glass barriers and face coverings.

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This Inexpensive New Smart Mask Can Amplify the Speaker's Voice and Translate Speech into 8 Languages

 

[Occams Barber]

A Japanese robotics company has developed a smart mask that can amplify voices, transcribe dictation, and translate speech into eight different languages—and they will be available to the public as soon as September.

The C-Mask was designed by Japanese tech startup Donut Robotics to improve communication between airline workers and supermarket employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The mask, which is Bluetooth-connected to the user’s phone, is capable of translating Japanese into Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, English, Spanish, and French.

The company originally developed their AI-based translation technology for their “Cinnamon” robot to assist international travelers at the airport. Since most of the nation’s airports were forced to close after the coronavirus outbreaks, the company applied their software to masks so that industry workers and healthcare providers could speak more clearly from behind protective glass barriers and face coverings.

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This Inexpensive New Smart Mask Can Amplify the Speaker's Voice and Translate Speech into 8 Languages

An early prototype

OB

 

[grasping the after wind]

"The C-Mask was designed by Japanese tech startup Donut Robotics to improve communication between airline workers and supermarket employees during the COVID-19 pandemic."

I guess that leaves me out as I am not an airline worker trying to communicate with a supermarket employee or a supermarket employee trying to communicate with an airline worker.

 

[zippy2006]

An early prototype

OB

"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am."

 

[Bungle_Bear]

"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am."

Akihito hasn't been emperor since April 2019. Naruhito took over from his father.

 

[zippy2006]

Akihito hasn't been emperor since April 2019. Naruhito took over from his father.

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Indeed.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Indeed.

Not sure what point you're trying to make posting pictures of the same fictional person at two different ages.

Meh.

 

[JohnDB]

But can you breathe through the thing?

 

[prodromos]

I'm just waiting for some joker to hack their translation database. My mind is only a slip away from the gutter, so I won't make any further suggestions. I'll leave it up to your imagination where it might lead.

 

[AV1611VET]

Man has been trying to reverse the Babel Effect ever since Genesis 11.