At the Global Sources Startup Launchpad in Hong Kong, I played with the Airbuds Air Translator, a combination of app and earbuds that aims to translate a conversation in near real-time.

According 4pda.ru, The Air Translator works this way: two persons speaking different languages use one earbud each. The earbuds have a ”talk” button that signals to the smartphone app to listen. Each sentence is sent to the cloud for translation and comes back as audio to the other person and text on the app’s screen in the form of a chat. This way, both people can check that the translation was correct. In essence, it’s a talkie-walkie translator hardware+app.

Airbud claims to support 42 languages, which is more than other competing startup we’ve seen.

The network latency remains a tough issue, and the pace of a conversation is clearly no natural. That’s why other solutions like Ili, have an embedded translation engine to bypass the network latency issue.

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