"Do you know the weight of the cathedral?"

Something tells me Google translator could do the job better

I think the best concept is instead of making a translator device, we should make a translator software which can be installed on mobile phones and computers and it can constantly be updated, corrected and made better through connection with internet.

Here's your answer: "NO". 6:20 :)

Loved that you actually demonstrated use in different situations. Probably won’t get as we don’t travel internationally very much.

I'm an English to Spanish, Spanish to English translator. My clients never understand pocket translators so they still rely on me to translate. I also have to frequently correct pocket translators including other translators like Google translate.

Seriously? Just remember.. Betteridge's law of headlines An adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." 😂

Me after learning some french words - I am somewhat a polyglot myself.😎

I chuckled at the weight of the Cathedral

Remember the technology is really new... when I went to Italy, Google translate worked fine, and even the older people knew what it was and how to use. But imagine how good this technology will be in 10-15 years time.

Thank you. I was thinking of getting a pair of ear pods that can translate and this review gives me idea of what to look for in a translator.

You should have tried it out in Italy, where not even us Italians understand most of the other dialects

It's interpreted NOT translated.

A hospital we’ve been to uses a service that they call when they need to converse with non English patients. They get a human on the other side that would translate in real time. Nothing beats humans when it comes to languages. These gadgets are only good for simple stuff. 299 with data isn’t so bad if you travel frequently but I would have just used google translate. Most people working at tourist spots these days understands basic English and a lot of non English tourists do speak English to a certain degree. I would be surprised if they are actually turning a profit on this thing.

Using this device professionally, I have to coach people to try not to speak "normal". Keep it simple, try not to be too long-winded, and be as short with your statements. With that being used, it has been EXTREMELY helpful on scenes as a paramedic. I ask very simple medical questions, but I do admit that about 30% of the time I use it to translate "Hey, call someone on your phone that speaks English to help us communicate with one another". We do have language line, but it has been extremely connection dependent since COVID. My guess is that it is probably because the translators began WFH and they have bad internet connections or equipment.

Thank you for this. Worth knowing about:)

Great presentation. Thank you for the time and effort you took to make this video and share it with us. Greetings from Croatia. ps what you think about device 1 year later?

As espected. Thanks for the test.

At any rate it shows a brighter future ahead for international travel.

The problem with Arabic is that it has tons of dialects, each totally different from each other. Each Arab country has their own dialect which all stem from fluent Arabic. So you can still use the machine, but if the person replies with a dialect, it will fail. It will only understand and translate fluent Arabic.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart. - Mandela

I downloaded a free translation app for a Japan trip and for basic practical communication it seemed to work better than the device in this video.

I have no idea who is going to buy translators of this quality but I hope these kinds of translators get better as other technologies.

thanks

Actually it work well for basic conversation of tourist's..

4:58 and 5:02 His reaction is priceless 😂

first advertisement of a product that is not a phone by wsj

Pocketalk: *Exists* WSJ: I'm going to end this whole man's career.

THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD, YOU SEEM NICE AND HONEST. I DONT KNOW IF I WILL BUY A LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR NOW. I WAS HOPING TO FIND ONE WHERE I COULD SAY A FULL SENTENCE IN ENGLISH AND HAVE IT TRANSLATE TO JAPANESE WITH MY ONLINE FRIEND. MAYBE LONG SENTENCES IN SPEECH WONT WORK TOO WELL FOR WHAT I WANT.

This will definitely improve in the future, we've done it before.

Nice video.

This is kind of relieving. Still some way to go before it's actually useful.

Happy 18,630,120 subs in 5 years!!!

If this joint venture with deepl this gonna be really good

Nice 👍

Looks similar to self-driving problems. It should improve over time if it has a self-correcting process built in.

On the tech side this device is most likely an android (linux) frontend for google translate or maybe bing translate. Briefly: machine translation still sucks. It will never get idioms right. However, some language pairs are better than others. Most MT esen is good, and most MT encn is bad.

The thing is that the research field of machine learning is largely centralized in Anglophone countries. Translating models are mostly published with test results of English. However, many languages in this world have much more complicated structures.

Imagine when this technology becomes perfect and you can have the chip in ur brain to work! U can speak and understand any language pretty much!

😂😂😂😂😂😂 I am a stroke survivor, for five years, labeled has ‘mild aphasia’. I had an interview, on Zoom, a few months ago. I watched the video, later, an a ‘app’ to translate it. It was full gibberish on the translation... 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Do you know the way to the cathedral? Sure, it's one thousand eight hundred tons.

Thats nice, but does anyone know option of live translation from audio to text in real time? That’s lot better option for meetings and it’s not disruptive.

what do they mean with "noise cancelling microphone"

This looks interesting.

I think the device could help someone learn a language faster that they are already studying. Like my sister learned spanish quickly by watching spanish tv while my mom translated what she didnt understand. You would eventually learn the language because you will start to remember the words. But some languages have a few backward phrases like in english you'd say, green grapes but in spanish it would be worded, grapes green.

google app has this live translator feature

By seeing it, I miss my HTC wildfire s

Will be done by all smartphones soon

this could have been an app

she said "the weight" instead of "the way"😹 3:00

Use the Translator app in iOS 14.

"Jaime's height" LOL!!

“Jaime Primero” I think was the confusion for the device…it says “Jamie’s place” when he meant 1st of Jamie as the street name. that was totally left out with the translator

Read comedy of coffin on kindle written by Avijit Kabiraj. Introduction : Two unemployed boys were employed by a mafia boss, their job is to bury a dead chef in the criminal's cemetery. The chef is the pasta maker whom the boss accidentally shot dead. The boys were chased by the police, shot by a sniper, rested in a church, kidnapped by an evil doctor, electrocuted, freezed, roasted, couple of ladies didn't spare them, survived the strange graveyard but when they returned after burying the dead chef, found the boss in a coffin...

Well a cathedral probably weighs thousands of tons

can ultra sound and light to and from architectural design and building automation may help integration with translation

Can also use for (oversea)phone call voice can translate two ways that i want we want???

It would have been nice to test out the camera as well. See how it does with everything from The Cat In The Hat to legal jargon in a contract.

The best bit of technology since Apple released the Newton

Touchscreen is a bad idea when it's raining and you're asking for directions or trying to take a photo..

Dont expect this device to know the names of the places or landmarks in cities or towns unless it is connected intelligently with the google map. Plus it may not be able to pick up certain words when being pronounced by certain people for instance non native english speaker may sound a little bit different when saying english words as compared to native english speaker. The best is to ask the other party to slow down when talking to the device. It is not meant for biz meeting. It s for simple language and it helps for tourists or people on a round the world trip....people will never get satisfied....just invent ur own device, guys, if u think u can do much better

Just simple use tourist guide. Machine is a machine.

5:08 cracked me up.

Weight of cathedral 😂😂

Any computer program goes though a lot of rule based processes. Language processing being in a similar territory. I have heard stories, where in people are collecting text, voice and context based data and feeding into a system. As this data set gets bigger and a computer get to understand the context. This may remove language barriers. Is it there yet, answer is no. Is it getting there, answer is in time.

Most apps installed on smartphones can do this language translation equally well and for free.

If devices like these actually worked, people wouldn’t bother learning foreign languages.

And just why does the towet of Babel come to mind on this one

Can someone suggest the best translator for Hindi/Urdu to English ??

Oh boy.

A little hard to set up due to the size of the touchscreen and lack of specific instructions kzfaq.infoUgkxNkNu8Sb6OAjgDHKMklYTaO-lJ4YPAIoS but when set up it is easy to use., I look forward to using it in travel when I am in a country where I am clueless in the language.

I'll just keep learning and practicing languages. Its more fun to interact directly with different cultures than through a device. If you are only interested in being a tourist, devices and apps like this are/will be fine.

In Barcelona but testing with Spanish instead of Catalan.

Guess we still can’t build another Tower of Babel yet.

Could it be the traffic noise that is interrupting it understanding ur accent

Is this ad?

I would like to see the same test on the iPhone translator

Maybe, another 5 years before this actually works in real time. 🤔

“Ahora mismo”--> “right now” - weird. Lol it should be: right away :) I’d probably get confused and think she was asking whether I wanted the drink in that particular moment.

Learning a language will always earn more respect than carrying an expensive translation device.

you know how fast can the AI improve, just check the NLP score. and you don't even have to upgrade the translator as the real work is done at the backend. On the other hand, how long will it cost an average person to learn a (actually, in this case, 82) new language?

I will continue to just use Google translate on my phone when traveling and in a bind.

I think if I were to go to a foreign country, I'd probably learn a little bit of the native language first.

Some is help is better than no help at all. The device will evolve for aure

wow its like asking an artist to test out ai image generator that probably will make him lose his job soon. 💀

This technology is still in the nascent stage, as aircraft in the 1920s. However, it will surely be a dealbreaker by 20 or so years from now!

Another Star Trek prediction comes true.

And to think they have computers that will think like humans which will not happen if we can’t even have a handheld devise to convert languages correctly

So basically we’re not using AI yet in this space. This is no different than Google Translate’s “Conversation” capability. I need a real way to have phone conversations and verbal in-person conversations, in different languages, QUICKLY. Not pausing to show the person the translation. We should be able to each use our headphones, connected to our phones over WiFi, and have immediate translation, with maybe a 1-3 second lag. We have the technology, the question is, who’s going to be the first and best time market with it?

What the point to have it if we have DeepL on a phone? Please, can someone explain the sense

Did Pocket Translator pay WSJ to do a review on their YT channel?

The first is a south-american, the second guy is a catalan speaker talking spanish, and arabic dialects are like languages, one from moroco wouldn't be able to understand an egyptian, imagine a program...

Would it have been better at translating Catalan in Barcelona instead of Castillian Spanish? The Spanish spoken in Barcelona has more of a regional accent than Spanish in Madrid. Also if the device has voice input, voice output, a camera and it looks like a smartphone, why isn't it just an app? 🤔

Imagine saying you'll put someone's mother in the hospital or something

I'm very interested in his coat!

Donde esta la biblioteca? 😂

Esperanro

It would be amazing if amazon or Google brought this translation company and improved the technology to Star Trek levels

its crazy it couldnt translate "a tu mano izquierda" into "on your left hand side" every spanish speaking country says it the same.

Actually, although I am sure you are a polyglot, you DO (honestly) have a thick British accent. To someone from, say Detroit -- Eye ahssked hem (etc.) Might sound a bit like you made a funny face about his garments' stiching! Not true misunderstanding, but do accents matter--even to electronic translation? Yes, enough to expect major strides in this arena to the extent that it quickly comes close to human talent...expect this. I see that some other comments do--that is appropriate, yes. By the way--actually speaking any languages well or attempting that is so very admirable. Thank you.😊