If you’re someone who isolates his or her travels to English-speaking destinations only, your world may have just opened up. If the only thing stopping you from seeing Versailles is not being able to speak French, there’s a solution. Pilot, a smart earpiece language translator, uses the latest in speech recognition technology to clearly understand other languages. Can you imagine living in a world without a language barrier or never having to worry about being lost in translation while traveling?
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Whether you’re a doctor needing to understand a patient or an employee working for a multinational company, Waverly Labs has created a smart earpiece that allows wearers to speak different languages and still clearly understand one other. According to Waverly’s Indiegogo fundraising campaign, which has raised close to $3.8 million, “Pilot is the convergence of wearable technology plus machine translation.”
With an estimated delivery date set for May of 2017 and languages that include English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, Pilot is poised to change the way we communicate across the globe. Equipped with an intuitive smartphone companion app, users can switch between languages and seamlessly upload the language of choice to your earpiece. If you’re traveling by train from Germany to France, just turn on your smartphone, go to your app, and switch the language preference. Since Pilot comes with two earpieces per order, just simply hand one of the earpieces to your French speaking friend and voila, instant translation.
With a specially designed dual noise-canceling microphone and a powerful app, Waverly designed an innovative device that uses machine translation and speech synthesis to translate languages between people. Pilot’s smartphone app, for example, has a conference mode that allows multiple people to wear the earpiece and join in on the same conversation, no matter if you’re speaking Portuguese or Italian. By tapping into your speakerphone, you can easily communicate with everyone in your business meeting whether they’re in Madrid or Rome.
Waverly Labs, when creating Pilot, made sure to keep comfort at the forefront of their earpiece design. From three different sized ear tips to three distinct color choices, Pilot made sure its earpieces were fashionable and at the same time, ergonomic.
Now for the important question: Is the translation perfect? The answer is no. With different dialects, varying speaking styles, speeds, voice inflections, there is plenty of room for improvement. Since Pilot uses voice recognition technology, its translation software only gets better the more it’s being used. In other words, human interaction is critical to Pilot’s development. By improving its machine translation and speech synthesis technology, Pilot plans on adding German, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Slavic, East Asian, and African languages to the docket by fall of 2017.
Great deal of set up required between two users. I cannot use this to ask simple directions in another country. Rhey must have smartphone and download the app. Try that in France.
Very difficult set up; instructions included not accurate; requires the other person to also have the app so useless for my needs as a nurse speaking with patients. Attempting to return product, can’t follow through from company.
Got mine today. Extremely disappointed. WHO in this company thought “Yeah, we won’t actually explain to potential buyers on the video that you need two smartphones and two apps in addition to wifi. But hey, once they find out we will have their money and be hard to reach.” Don’t buy this. DON’T BUY THIS! Use Google translate instead. No setup, only one phone, FREE! You will soon see hundreds of these on Ebay from disappointed buyers.
Got mine today. Extremely disappointed. WHO in this company thought “Yeah, we won’t actually explain to potential buyers on the video that you need two smartphones and two apps in addition to wifi. But hey, once they find out we will have
Not pleased at all with this product.
I feel suckered, buying in early on a pilot product that was falsely advertised. I thought only one phone (the host) was necessary to communicate with another person. No way can I ask someone, especially anyone I just met, to install an app on their phone. I or anyone else I know would assume the person is trying to steal something personal from our phones, as everyone should think these days. I can’t even say if the product works as planned with two phones because my frustration prevented me from testing it with someone I know personally to try it in their native language.
Not pleased at all with this product.
I feel suckered, buying in early on a pilot product that was falsely advertised. I thought only one phone (the host) was necessary to communicate with another person. No way can I ask someone, especially anyone
Forget about it
Same as others WAY too much set up required.
I can’t even get them to reliable play music in two ears. Very disappointed.
I waited 2 years and spent $200 for mine and it sucks. You have to speak in slow mo or it only picks up about 10 percent of the conversation. I comlained and was told you need close proximity, quite space, slow speech, and a loud voice. This product is worthless for real word applications.
I waited 2 years and spent $200 for mine and it sucks. You have to speak in slow mo or it only picks up about 10 percent of the conversation. I comlained and was told you need close proximity, quite space, slow speech, and a loud voice. This produ
Additional the buds do not stay connected to smart phone so you can’t use them for regular phone conversation or for listening to music.
Sitting in the shelf collecting dust. Disappointed with the over promising features. Google translate seems more practical.
Try to use this in meetings to understand everyting is being said. Unless you put the phone up to you mouth it does not hear or translate anyone that is speaking.
Guess it goes in the trash, pretty disappointed. When in essence it is basically a Bluetooth headset that uses an app the same as google translate.
Ill stick with google and also get better translations and the app can pick up people talking in the room.
Not worth the purchase
Try to use this in meetings to understand everyting is being said. Unless you put the phone up to you mouth it does not hear or translate anyone that is speaking.
Guess it goes in the trash, pretty disappointed. When in essence it is basically a Blu
My initial experience is very poor. The Pilot couldn’t translate in a timely manner. It couldn’t even play music on both earpieces consistently as the left (secondary) kept dropping out, and what music it played was with a very poor quality reproduction. That all said, I want them to work. I hope that if I learn how to use them properly and the software is improved then I will be happier. I still want to believe that Waverly Lab’s focus on providing a translation service might pay-off.
My initial experience is very poor. The Pilot couldn’t translate in a timely manner. It couldn’t even play music on both earpieces consistently as the left (secondary) kept dropping out, and what music it played was with a very poor qual
very disappointed… for two days attempting to pair to samsung.. instructions are NON_Existant … where is HELP
no where