Alexa Live Translation feature arrives on Echo with six language pairs
Amazon has announced the arrival of Live Translation on its Echo devices, enabling users to have a conversation in two different languages in real-time with Alexa serving as a translator. The feature is arriving for Echo devices in the US with a total of six language pairs to kick things off, including English – Spanish.
The ability to use machine intelligence for real-time language transition is a growing reality, one that bridges the language divide and opens up new opportunities for communication. Live Translation on Echo devices may be less useful than, say, real-time translation on one’s phone, but it’s a nice tool regardless.
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Amazon is updating its Alexa voice assistant with a new feature that would users to use Live Translation. As the name suggests, the update will allow individuals speaking in two different languages to converse with each other, with Alexa acting as an interpreter and translating both sides of the conversation. The feature uses Amazon s speech recognition technology and neural machine translation technology to work and supports translating between English and French, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese (Brazilian), German or Italian. The Live Translation feature is said to work with Echo devices (speakers and display) with locale set to English US. The e-commerce company is yet to share its availability details.
(Pocket-lint) - Amazon Alexa has received a new Live Translation feature. Specifically, the assistant can now do real-time translations between English and Spanish, German, French, Hindi, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese, all thanks to a new over-the-air software update. Amazon [has] launched Alexa’s new Live Translation feature, which allows individuals speaking in two different languages to converse with each other, with Alexa acting as an interpreter and translating both sides of the conversation, Amazon announced in a post. Once the session has commenced, customers can speak phrases or sentences in either language. Alexa will automatically identify which language is being spoken and translate each side of the conversation.
It is rolling out Live Translation feature, which
allows individuals speaking in two different languages to converse with each other. Here, the
Alexa-enabled Echo devices will act as an interpreter and will translate both sides of the conversation.
The latest development comes from Amazon’s blog, which announced the rollout of the Live Translation feature for Alexa in the US. Yes,
the feature is currently limited to the US. As of now,
it works with six language pairs English and Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, or Hindi. It only works on Echo devices with locale set to English US.
Amazon adds Live Translation to Alexa’s toolbox of skills
The assistant just got better multilingual support in November
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Alexa is gaining the ability to do live translations between English and Spanish, German, French, Hindi, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese with a new update Amazon announced today. The update joins Alexa’s expanded multilingual skills that were added in November to make the assistant a more capable non-English speaker and translator on devices in the US.
Live Translation can be initiated with a voice command like “Alexa, translate Spanish.” Alexa will play a beep to signal that you can start speaking with your partner and then translate your conversations live, even displaying a live transcript on the screen of Echo Show devices. Amazon sees this as being useful for talking with visiting friends and family from abroad or in a hotel setting through the Alexa for Hospitality platform.