Xiaomi announced a new product that bothers on
language translation at the 2018 Xinnzhiyuan AI Technology Summit held in Beijing China in March. The product
is the Konjac AI Translator manfactured by Xiaomi’s ecological chain company –
Banana (Beijing) Technological company. The product is now on sale on the
Youpin e-retail platform for just 299 yuan (US$ 47).
The Konjac AI Translator comes with a compact
aluminum body coated using the sandblasting process similar to the one used on
the Apple MacBook Pro. The device comes with dimensions that makes it no bigger
than an MP3 player It has a sturdy and sleek design with rounded corners. It's
also lightweight and won’t be bulky to carry around. For operations, there are
four physical buttons on the front; two volume control buttons, a button for
translation, and another button to listening to your feed. It also comes with a
single loudspeaker, a mic, and a USB Type-C port for charging. At last, there
is a LED indicator to show the work status as well as remaining power.
The Xiaomi AI Translator
supports simultaneous translation of 14 languages and integrates up to 99%
voice system function of Xiao AI. It also integrates the AI translation engine
of Microsoft Translation. Unfortunately, apart from English language and
Chinese, we don’t know which other languages are supported.
Also, the device is proficient in more than
47 skills such as playing music, checking the weather, listening to the radio,
read out the news and several other assistance services. It can also help the
user in learning foreign languages. The
device comes with a 900 mAH battery.
This product might come in handy for
tourists and other persons who are in locations where a language they
understand isn’t spoken.
