from the but-we-want-fish-in-our-ears dept.
Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of the world's first wearable, hands-free speech translation device, suitable for tasks in which the users' hands are often occupied, such as in diagnoses or treatment in healthcare.
In recent years, with an increase in the number of visitors to Japan, more and more non-Japanese patients are going to hospitals, creating issues in supporting communication in multiple languages. In 2016, Fujitsu Laboratories developed hands-free technology that recognizes people's voices and the locations of speakers, and that automatically changes to the appropriate language without physical manipulation of the device. That same year, it also worked with the University of Tokyo Hospital and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) to conduct a field trial of multilingual speech translation in the medical field using stationary-type tablets. Based on the results, Fujitsu Laboratories learned that, as there are many situations in which healthcare providers have their hands full, such as when providing care in a hospital ward, there was a great need for a wearable speech translation device that could be used without being physically touched.
In order to expand the usability of multilingual speech translation, Fujitsu Laboratories has developed the world's first compact, wearable, hands-free speech translation device by developing technology to differentiate speakers using small omnidirectional microphones. This is possible through an ingenious modification of the shape of the sound channel, and by improving the accuracy of speech detection technology that is highly resistant to background noise. Use of this device is expected to reduce the burden on healthcare providers whose hands are often constrained by other tasks.
Alas, the JET Program did not solve this problem.
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Translation follows.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Bot on Tuesday September 19 2017, @07:50PM
> such as in diagnoses or treatment in healthcare
And here I was, waiting for a nuclear war to wipe out meatbags. Turn out they are going to give us control of their health instead.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @08:02PM (1 child)
They can call it the Babel fish.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday September 19 2017, @08:48PM
God is tired of shrinking or being used as a terrible excuse, maybe we should encourage her to vanish in a puff of logic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @09:08PM
...sailor's delight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 19 2017, @09:27PM (2 children)
Is it 'wearable' in my ear?
Just wondering.. ;-)
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday September 19 2017, @10:33PM
The one that Linus Tech Tips recently reviewed is worn in the ear.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:52AM
Sounds fishy.