{"id":469,"date":"2009-11-06T18:27:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:06:26","slug":"need-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/need-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Need glasses?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TranslationI wear spectacles, but they\u2019re nowhere near as hi-tech (or useful) as these glasses invented by NEC.<\/p>\n

The company says it is planning to launch spectacles that can aid real-time translation, allowing chat between users to flow freely. Whilst they\u2019re not exactly like specs (they won\u2019t help you see better); they more resemble<\/a> a headset with a microphone, and this is how they work:<\/p>\n

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…the microphone on the headset picks up the voices of both people in a conversation, pipes it through translation software and voice-to-text systems and then sends the translation back to the headset.<\/p>\n

At the same time as a user hears a translation, they would also get text subtitles beamed onto the retina. (Source: BBC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not so sure about having \u201csubtitles beamed onto [my] retina\u201d (sounds painful!) but this definitely sounds like a useful tool. (https:\/\/baycities.com<\/a>) I can imagine as a language learner you could use it to connect with native language speakers all over the world, turning the translation on and off as and when you want to use it. Sadly, we\u2019ll have to wait til 2011 to find out how useful it really is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wear spectacles, but they\u2019re nowhere near as hi-tech (or useful) as these glasses invented by NEC. The company says it is planning to launch spectacles that can aid real-time translation, allowing chat between users to flow freely. Whilst they\u2019re not exactly like specs (they won\u2019t help you see better); they more resemble a headset […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,16,200],"tags":[51,40,378,379,16,200,376,377],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-acquisition","category-technology","category-translation","tag-language","tag-language-acquisition","tag-native-language-speakers","tag-real-time-translation","tag-technology","tag-translation","tag-translation-glasses","tag-translation-spectacles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}