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[. . . ] How Google's Pixel Buds earphones translate languages 15 November 2017, by Ian Mcloughlin recording a mixture of the users' voice and other sounds. "Denoising" removes background sounds while a voice activity detector (VAD) is used to turn the system on only when the correct person is speaking (and not someone standing behind you in a queue saying "OK Google" very loudly). [. . . ] Impressive technology for Natural language processing: NLP performs under US$200. Verbs, but includes decoding the meaning of the input speech, and then re-encoding that meaning Real-time speech translation consists of a chain of as output speech in a different language - with all several distinct technologies – each of which have the nuances and complexities that make second experienced rapid degrees of improvement over languages so hard for us to learn. The chain, from input to output, goes like this: Speech synthesis or text-to-speech (TTS): almost the opposite of ASR, this synthesises natural Input conditioning: the earbuds pick up sounding speech from a string of words (or background noise and interference, effectively phonetic information). Older systems used additive 1/3 synthesis, which effectively meant joining together improve their translation models. Updating a model lots of short recordings of someone speaking is easy on their own cloud servers. Modern systems use complex statistical speech models to recreate a natural sounding voice. The late Douglas Adams would surely have found the technology behind these real life translating machines amazing – which it is. But computer Putting it all together scientists and engineers will not stop here. The So now we have the five blocks of technology in the next wave of speech-enabled computing could chain, let's see how the system would work in even be inspired by another fictional device, such practice to translate between languages such as as Iron Man's smart computer, J. This system would go way beyond Once ready to translate, the earbuds first record an translation, would be able to converse with us, utterance, using a VAD to identify when the speech understand what we are feeling and thinking, and starts and ends. Removed within the earbuds themselves, or once the recording has been transferred by Bluetooth to This article was originally published on The a smartphone. It is then compressed to occupy a much smaller amount of data, then conveyed over Conversation. [. . . ] Furthermore, companies with these kind of products (Google, iFlytek and IBM) rely on continuous improvement to correct, refine and Provided by The Conversation 2/3 APA citation: How Google's Pixel Buds earphones translate languages (2017, November 15) retrieved 9 December 2018 from https://techxplore. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. [. . . ]