Nice find. Microsoft, Google, and few others (including Skype, also now owned by Microsoft) have apps that already translate dozens of languages in real-time, although of course it still requires saying each thing twice (a second time by the "translator"). That's a far cry from nanites that help everyone hear the same language as they speak it (and somehow make their mouths form the words of the other language), but it is pretty cool.
And very useful for when I travel to Japan.
The Pilot seems to take things a step further by pairing two earpieces to an app, which may provide better efficiency during translation if it works as planned. Although, I wonder why they didn't just design something to be used with exist translating apps? Maybe they feel their translation is more accurate. Or here's a bit from the first URL below that may indicate what differentiates this from other existing, more mature apps:
While the details are currently scarce, it's likely the ear pieces will pick up your voices, send it to the app via Bluetooth, and then come out as translated speech in the other person's ear
In this way, with two paired earpieces also acting as microphones working in unison, perhaps the conversation will be integrated a bit better, and it doesn't require two apps (I'm guessing) on two different mobile devices (or sitting a single device between you, which can pick up background noise), maybe even with some of the processing occurring the earpieces themselves (I'm speculating). If I'm understanding this correctly, though, it probably would make the process more efficient than can be done now with those existing apps.
Wonder how long it'll be before one of the big boys buys this out?
http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/pilot-translate/#IgRMwYs3AZqnhttps://www.wareable.com/hearables/pilot-waverly-labs-translation-earbudhttp://www.gizmag.com/waverly-labs-pilot-in-ear-translator-translation/43359/ ____________
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