the-future-now:

Pilot, the real-time universal translator, is straight out of a sci-fi novel

• The ability to understand someone speaking a foreign language could soon be as easy as wearing a new earpiece.
• Waverly Labs is behind an earpiece called the Pilot that is eerily similar in scope to Star Trek’s Universal Translator  that allows individuals to translate languages in real-time.
• The smart earpiece works by canceling out ambient noise to
  concentrate on what is being said by a speaker
• And then funnels that
  data to a complementary app that screens it for translation and speech
  synthesis, according to its website.
• Pilot isn’t the first — and likely won’t be the last — piece
  of tech made for the translation marketplace.
• However, where this device really shines is with its instantaneous
  translation possibilities that remove the sometimes awkward waiting game. Read more

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Shouldn’t this be called ‘Babel fish?’  😉