ISSUE 10 • ANDROID ADVISOR translation app, which made me imagine what life
would be like if everyone wore smartglasses.
Picture this: you go to a country where your
knowledge of the language is minimal, to say the
least. Ordinarily, speaking to a local would involve
strangely accented English (why do we always
think this will help!?) and fl amboyant gestures that
probably make no sense at all. If you were both
wearing smartglasses you could speak to them in
English, which would be automatically translated into
their language (let's say Japanese) for them to read
on their smartglass display. They can then speak
back to you in Japanese and you'd immediately be
able to read it in English. Cool, right?
Speech recognition is getting better by the day, so
all it would take is for the technology to be built into
smartglasses and for smartglasses to be adopted