Inspiration
With the increase in refugees and immigrants in Canada, demands for accessibility are at an all-time high. Our goal is to break the language barriers being built and helping immigrants and those who can’t understand certain languages. With a focus on making communication between denizens and immigrants easier and more understandable.
What it does
ALTA would be able to translate foreign languages in semi-real time, using a software both built into the earpiece itself and the mobile application that it connects to. The user would select what language they are translating and what language it should translate to, through the application. The translation itself would take place with the software in the earpiece, however its calibration would be done on the mobile application.
How we built it
With our connection programs being a version of the wireless technologies already developed by titans in the tech industry (i.e. Google, Apple). And translation software to assist the speech-to-text-to-translation process, we hope to streamline the process to make the software faster and more reliable.
Challenges we ran into
The use of an external application to calibrate the earpiece was a difficulty that was not a though in the beginnings of the design. However it did help us figure out better, and faster ways for the earpiece to translate the speech it heard.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
With the plans we've laid out for the future, we believe that this product would be able to help people in the long-term. Thinking of most of the issues that could arrive from this technology is a bit of a struggle, however it should be fairly thought through.
What we learned
With all of the tech companies attempting to make translation easier and faster, it may come as a question to how our product is different. But by using an external software we learned that the device itself is not the sole piece of equipment necessary to streamline the process.
What's next for ALTA - Automatic Linguistic Translation Augmentation
Our next steps are to move into the development phase of the product, figuring out everything that would need correcting and improve on the designs we have already built and reviewed.
Built With
- kivy
- python
