AI & RoboticsNews

Google Assistant's interpreter mode is coming to iOS and Android

December 12, 2019
Early this year, Google brought its real-time translation feature, interpreter mode, to Assistant-enabled smart displays and speakers. Now, the feature is rolling out to Assistant-enabled Android and iOS phones worldwide. To use interpreter mode, you’ll say something like “Hey Google, be my German translator,” or “Hey Google, help me speak Thai.” Assistant will…
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Google Assistant can now interpret 44 languages on smartphones

December 12, 2019
In January during the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Google debuted interpreter mode, a real-time translation feature for Google Home speakers and third-party smart displays like those from JBL, Sony, LG, and Lenovo. The tech giant said at the time that interpreter mode would eventually come to mobile devices, but it didn’t set a date. The date is today, as it turns out. As of this…
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Augury raises $8 million more to predict mechanical breakdowns with AI

December 12, 2019
Can mechanical abnormalities in a combustion engine, a fan, or a pneumatic press be inferred from the sound they produce alone? As it turns out, yes — and with great precision. Patterns embedded within the noise communicate valuable information, some of which foretell trouble. Inspired by this idea, software developer Gal Shaul and analog signal processing engineer Saar Yoskovitz cofounded…
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MobileNews

Oppo Find X2 could be first to launch with Snapdragon 865 chip in early 2020

December 12, 2019
Off the back of the Oppo Inno Day 2019, more information has been drip-fed from the firm to the global media in attendance. Notably, the potential early 2020 release of the Oppo Find X2 — the follow-up to one of the very first sliding smartphones. When the original Find X was announced, it felt like a concept that would never make it to market, but eventually it did, despite many flaws in the…
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