A phone company has unveiled a futuristic new feature that could change the future of travel forever.
While smartphone translation isn’t a new function, one firm has made groundbreaking innovations into the technology that has the potential to break language barriers around the world.
Honor is a phone firm based in China that has created an AI ‘live translation’ that allows you to have a fluid conversation with someone speaking another language.
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During this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, the phone company unveiled its new Honor Alpha Plan, which is a strategy to transform the firm into a global leading AI device ecosystem company.
In the announcement, Honor shared that it will ‘firmly embrace an open collaborative ecosystem in the AI era’.
And a particularly exciting feature to be revealed by Honor is its AI translation, which will enable its users to receive real-time translation whether that is through text or speech.
Incredibly, this also works when having a face-to-face conversation with someone speaking another language, with the feature able to translate the speech back to each person.
According to Honor, the AI system is capable of ‘understanding context, grammar and even cultural nuances over time’, which could make it a game changer for smartphone translation.
During MWC, Honor also introduced the new Earbuds Open, and just to make things even more futuristic, if you use the translation feature with the earbuds, you could have a fluid face-to-face conversation with someone even if you don’t speak the same language.
But that’s not all, other features for the device were also displayed at the congress.
These include things like deepfake detection and AI upscaling of old images.
Deepfake detection
The Honor Magic 7 Pro smartphone comes with the ability to detect deepfakes in video, a feature that the firm has said will soon be available globally.
The AI deepfake detector has been trained through a ‘large dataset of videos and images related to online scams, enabling the AI to perform identification, screening, and comparison within three seconds’.
The feature is able to spot pixel level imperfections that are invisible to the human eye and will alert the user with a risk warning if it detects any synthetic or altered content.
AI Upscale
One particularly cool image edit feature is the AI Upscale, which allows users to upgrade old pictures to give it an enhanced and more defined quality.
With most people owning at least some old and inherited photographs that have become weathered and torn with time, this feature could help users create newer-looking images of loved ones from decades gone by.