The Timekettle Team has rolled out the official version of the full offline translation feature in December 2020, a world-first two-way simultaneous speech translation between seven languages (as 11 language pairs). You can now download the latest Timekettle APP version 1.7.0 at Google Play and iOS app store, and enjoy the efficiently offline translation without network connections. The offline feature is available for all Timekettle devices, includes WT2 Plus Translator Earbuds, ZERO Translator, M2 Translator Earbuds, and WT2 Edge Translator Earbuds.
Get the M2 offline add-on pack HERE
List of the 11 available offline language pairs:
English<->Spanish, Japanese, French, Russian, Korean, Chinese
Chinese<->Spanish, Japanese, French, Russian, Korean
Before V1.7.0, it can only be run on the cloud server because the offline data package resources are too large to be loading.
For a long time, the process of artificial intelligence speech recognition and translation has been completed on the cloud server. This is because these two tasks require a huge amount of computing and downloading to the mobile phone takes up storage space. For example, in the past, the size of the speech recognition model for a single Chinese language exceeded 1GB, and it occupies more than 2GB of memory during operation, which is exceeded for most mobile phones. Therefore, most of the offline translations provided by apps or translation products were text translations in the past. Even with voice translation, there were very few languages supported, and the recognition and translation quality was poor. The scenes that this kind of offline translation can actually cover are within the scope of some specific sentences such as "hello".
Although 5G has fast coverage, there are still many places where the network is poor or inconvenient to access the online resources.
When you head to remote places, travel on airplanes, or just be in an underground garage, no signal or slow networks will definitely lead you embarrassed, especially you need a quick chat with a foreigner for assistance. And this kind of demand is so urgent and it is impossible to move to another place that good networks supported. Thus, offline language resources may rescue you at this moment.
It took nearly a year, compressed it to one-tenth of the previous.
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