Citing Google’s incredible Project Glass as an inspiration, Will Powell has modified Vuzik 1200 Star glasses for the specific purpose of translating foreign languages in real time. The glasses, powered by the incredible Raspberry Pi translate the language and display it as subtitles on the glasses for the wearer.
According to Mashable and Will’s personal blog, the device is made possible using two Raspberry Pi devices running debian squeeze, Vuzix 1200 Star glasses, a Jawbone Mic, Headset Mic, TV, iPhone, iPad and a Transformer.
The aforementioned collective of parts creates an experience that is likely to change the way people communicate with one another. The ability to receive real time translation of any language would allow easy communication, even allowing for two people wearing the glasses communicate with one another directly without ever speaking the same language.
According to Mr. Powell the device works as follows:
“The individual using the glasses wears the Vuzix 1200 Star glasses which are connected to the s-video connector on the first raspberry pi and the Jawbone bluetooth microphone that connects to a device such as smartphone or tablet to provide a clean noise cancelled audio feed. The bluetooth microphone streams across the network of what I say and what it picks up around me. This is then recognised and passed through Microsoft’s translation API with a caching layer to improve performance of regularly used statements. Passing through this API service is the biggest delay in the subtitles. Once translated the server passes back the text and translations that are picked up by the raspberry pi driving the TV and glasses displays.”
TQ are big fans of Raspberry Pi as well as any innovations that help make the world a better place. Congratulations to you Will Powell for doing such a good deed and sharing a video about it to boot.
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