This summer the TC team took a brief trip to Shenzhen, where I met Wells Tu, whose company TimeKettle has made an earpiece that translates spoken Chinese to English and vice versa in near real time. Having created a functioning prototype (it isn’t vaporware; we tried it, as you can see above) he and the team are now heading to Kickstarter to raise the money for their first run of the… Read More WT2 real-time translation earpieces look to crowdfund first runThis entry was posted in Crowdfunding Gadgets Kickstarter Startups TC Translation on September 19, 2017 by Devin Coldewey
At TechCrunch’s event in Shenzhen last month, we had a chance to test out the WT2, a clever and ambitious device from startup TimeKettle. It’s a pair of wireless earpieces; each person in a multilingual conversation wears one, and they translate what’s said into the language spoken by each participant. Essentially it’s a Babel fish, though admittedly a rough draft of one. Read More Timekettle’s WT2 real-time translation earpieces enable ordinary conversation across language ...This entry was posted in Gadgets Mobile Startups TC Translation on July 27, 2017 by Devin Coldewey
Quizlet, the popular app that lets students create interactive study sets and prepare for tests in any subject, is unveiling a redesign today, including a new website, logo and redesigned mobile apps soon to come. The new Quizlet was created with... Quizlet launches a redesign with an eye towards international expansionThis entry was posted in Apps Education Mobile Startups TC Translation on August 10, 2016 by Lora Kolodny
Machine learning is accomplishing Facebook’s mission of connecting the world across language barriers. Facebook is now serving 2 billion text translations per day. Facebook can translate across 40 different languages in 1800 directions like French to English. And 800 million users, almost half of all Facebook users, see translations each month. Alan Packer, Facebook’s Director… Read More 800M Facebook users see automatic language translations each monthThis entry was posted in Apps artificial intelligence machine learning Social TC Translation and tagged facebook pinterest on May 23, 2016 by Legit Coder
Google is launching an update to its Translate apps for iOS and Android today. There are three main parts to today’s announcement: offline support for iOS, Tap To Translate on Android, and Word Lens support for Chinese across platforms. With this new version, the Translate team is bringing offline support to iOS. This feature, which comes in pretty handy when you are traveling and… Read More Google Translate gets in-app translations on Android, offline mode on ...This entry was posted in Android Apps Google Translate iOS Mobile smartphones TC Translation on May 11, 2016 by Frederic Lardinois
Smartling, the translation tech company, has acquired TechStars alumni Jargon on Crunchbase which makes tools for mobile developers who want to “localize” their apps for different international markets, and the devices and app stores that are relevant in each one. New York-based Smartling is known for its “translation management system” software, and marketplace of… Read More Smartling acquires Jargon to help mobile developers ready their apps ...This entry was posted in acquisition Developer Enterprise Fundings & Exits Mobile Startups TC Translation on April 6, 2016 by Lora Kolodny
Mobile messaging is eating the world. So it follows that mobile messaging interfaces will eat UI design. To wit: meet Stepes, a “chat-based translation app” created by veteran software localization company CSOFT. For “chat-based” read: it has a mobile messaging style UI. Read More Stepes Is A Bet That A Chat App Can Mobilize ...This entry was posted in Apps crowdsourcing CSOFT Google Translate machine translation Mobile Stepes TC Translation on December 17, 2015 by Natasha Lomas