Project Glass: Translation...inspired - subtitles in glasses (English Spanish conversation)

Inspired by google's project glass I put together an application that can provide translated subtitles in real time. It allows me and my sister Elizabeth to have a conversation when I speak English and she speaks Spanish.

It uses two Raspberry Pi boards, Vuzix Star 1200, Jawbone mic. Audio is picked up and streamed from mobile device to a server that recognises, translates (uses microsoft translate API and caching layer) and pushes back. One pi drives the glasses and the other the TV that shows both halves of the conversation. Elizabeth uses a mic but would use the same Vuzix, Jawbone, Pi setup if I had another set of kit.

Find out more at http://www.willpowell.co.uk or follow me @WillPowellUK

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[CasusUniversum]

That's some pretty bad Spanish, haha, but cool tech though.

[Julio Cesar Rodriguez]

LOL that girl isnt spanish

[girabbit85]

Now we just need spanish people to understand them.

[KevinThaKat]

I believe this is the camera view from your glasses, HOWEVER, how can we be sure that you didn't just go ahead and add subtitles with your editing software during the video edit? Cool idea, either way. Good luck.

[pandatomor]

Rasberry Pi awesome man, busy with one myself.

[YesSirItsEsser]

So computers can understand white people speaking spanish, progress! :D

[tolerancija]

Rasberry PI FTW!!! :)

[cerealcow]

That was a terrible game of chess. Also whats to stop someone from using those glasses to run a computer simulation of a chess game in order to cheat?

[Jared Cornall]

I love it.

[Joe Vinsik]

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.