Fan Cheng Japan invented intelligent mask, which can speak and translate
Published on:2020-07-23
Recently, a Japanese company invented a smart mask, which was developed to solve the problem of poor communication with masks. As a result, R & D is moving in the direction of advanced. According to fastcompany, a Japanese company called "donut labs" has developed a smart mask that can translate eight different languages to help wearers communicate.
The mask is going to rob the translator.
Compared with the thick mask you buy, this mask called "C-face" seems to have more in common with the intelligent wearable device Fitbit. According to the company, it can be used to protect COVID-19. It can also translate the wearers words from Japanese into Vietnamese, English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian and French in 8 languages. In terms of working principle, this mask is connected to Smartphone Application through Bluetooth, so as to convert voice into text information, and can also conduct voice dictation and phone calls.
In fact, C-face is a plastic box installed on the soft air filter mask. Its main function is to help people better understand the dialogue that they dont quite understand or understand. According to Reuters, as long as the mobile phone is connected to Bluetooth, it can sense facial muscles in some way and decrypt the wearers voice (if there is a microphone in the mask), with a maximum call distance of 10 meters.
Source: donut Labs
At the same time, a supporting application will convert voice into text on the mobile phone screen for reading. You can also use the speaker of the smart phone to play adult voice. The application promises that it will take only a few minutes to translate the communication during the meeting into one of eight languages.
Otake Ono, CEO of donut labs, said that the product was developed after years of efforts. They hope to use the technology to invent a product that can deal with the social situation after the epidemic. During the epidemic, the company has reached a cooperation with Tokyo Haneda airport to provide robot guides and translators for the airport, but it has not been really implemented yet.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, the company developed C-face and launched crowdfunding on fundino, a crowdfunding website in Japan. Of course, the price of this mask is also relatively high, and the unit price is expected to be $40 (about 280 yuan). Eventually, the company raised about $260000.
Since it was reported by Reuters in July, donut labs said the company had received hundreds of emails asking them to provide support in 30 countries and regions.
Although donut labs said that the mask can be applied in many scenarios, such as bank counters across glass and company meeting scenes, many people still think that the mask is weak - after all, it seems that there is no difference between smart masks and software speech recognition with a mobile phone next to masks.
But donut labs said it plans to add more features to smart masks soon. In the future, C-face will be extended to image systems (AR, VR), etc. The first batch of 5000 masks will be launched in Japan in September, and then will expand to China, the United States and Europe.
The mask is going to rob the translator.
Compared with the thick mask you buy, this mask called "C-face" seems to have more in common with the intelligent wearable device Fitbit. According to the company, it can be used to protect COVID-19. It can also translate the wearers words from Japanese into Vietnamese, English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian and French in 8 languages. In terms of working principle, this mask is connected to Smartphone Application through Bluetooth, so as to convert voice into text information, and can also conduct voice dictation and phone calls.
In fact, C-face is a plastic box installed on the soft air filter mask. Its main function is to help people better understand the dialogue that they dont quite understand or understand. According to Reuters, as long as the mobile phone is connected to Bluetooth, it can sense facial muscles in some way and decrypt the wearers voice (if there is a microphone in the mask), with a maximum call distance of 10 meters.
Source: donut Labs
At the same time, a supporting application will convert voice into text on the mobile phone screen for reading. You can also use the speaker of the smart phone to play adult voice. The application promises that it will take only a few minutes to translate the communication during the meeting into one of eight languages.
Otake Ono, CEO of donut labs, said that the product was developed after years of efforts. They hope to use the technology to invent a product that can deal with the social situation after the epidemic. During the epidemic, the company has reached a cooperation with Tokyo Haneda airport to provide robot guides and translators for the airport, but it has not been really implemented yet.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, the company developed C-face and launched crowdfunding on fundino, a crowdfunding website in Japan. Of course, the price of this mask is also relatively high, and the unit price is expected to be $40 (about 280 yuan). Eventually, the company raised about $260000.
Since it was reported by Reuters in July, donut labs said the company had received hundreds of emails asking them to provide support in 30 countries and regions.
Although donut labs said that the mask can be applied in many scenarios, such as bank counters across glass and company meeting scenes, many people still think that the mask is weak - after all, it seems that there is no difference between smart masks and software speech recognition with a mobile phone next to masks.
But donut labs said it plans to add more features to smart masks soon. In the future, C-face will be extended to image systems (AR, VR), etc. The first batch of 5000 masks will be launched in Japan in September, and then will expand to China, the United States and Europe.
