{"id":687466,"date":"2026-07-12T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:13:10","slug":"plymouth-students-30-device-translates-words-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687466\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth student&#8217;s \u00a330 device &#8216;translates words in real time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The design captures speech through a small microphone, where an AI model translated and converted it into written text in real time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The translated text was then sent over wi-fi Fi via a &#8220;microcontroller&#8221; which Milya said &#8220;sends signals from one thing to another&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained the controller was, in essence, &#8220;a small computer, and that&#8217;s how the language is detected and also translated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The text is reflected through a mirror, lens and reflector, appearing like subtitles in the user&#8217;s field of view, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milya said the device was more accurate if programmed for a specific language &#8211; but was also not just helpful for understanding foreign languages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Besides translation, it&#8217;s really good at transcription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So, people hard of hearing can have a subtitle display.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The design captures speech through a small microphone, where an AI model translated and converted it into written&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}