Amazon Alexa-Enabled Echo Devices Get Live Translation Support for Six Languages Including Hindi
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Amazon is updating its Alexa voice assistant with a new feature that would users to use Live Translation. As the name suggests, the update will allow individuals speaking in two different languages to converse with each other, with Alexa acting as an interpreter and translating both sides of the conversation. The feature uses Amazon s speech recognition technology and neural machine translation technology to work and supports translating between English and French, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese (Brazilian), German or Italian. The Live Translation feature is said to work with Echo devices (speakers and display) with locale set to English US. The e-commerce company is yet to share its availability details.
It is rolling out Live Translation feature, which
allows individuals speaking in two different languages to converse with each other. Here, the
Alexa-enabled Echo devices will act as an interpreter and will translate both sides of the conversation.
The latest development comes from Amazon’s blog, which announced the rollout of the Live Translation feature for Alexa in the US. Yes,
the feature is currently limited to the US. As of now,
it works with six language pairs English and Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, or Hindi. It only works on Echo devices with locale set to English US.