Fujitsu develops hands-free speech translator

It has two integrated omnidirectional microphones – one of them faces forward, to pick up the voice of the patient, while another faces up, to pick up the voice of the wearer. Onboard software automatically detects which of the two people is speaking, and a cloud-based server translates their words to synthesized speech in an output language of the user’s choice.

This means, for instance, that before a conversation started, the user could stipulate that their own speech be translated to English, and that the patient’s speech be translated to Japanese.

Ben Coxworth

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