Right now, you have your smartphone, which can get you online for connecting to different services that provide you with instant text-to-speech and speech-to-speech translations. These services certainly are a great help when you are travelling in other countries and meeting people who speak different languages. But if you were wishing for a tiny device which could utilize the various translation services, you are in luck as the Sigmo is exactly that, though a smartphone is still needed.
Currently at indiegogo, the Sigmo is a very simple device which comes with a microphone, speaker, an on/off button, buttons for first and second languages, and Bluetooth for connecting to iOS and Android devices (other operating systems will be supported later on).
For using Sigmo, you will have to go to the free Sigmo smartphone app and select your native language and the language of the person you want to talk to. Then you press the first language button on Sigmo and speak, and then wait for the translation to come out through Sigmo’s speaker. For hearing the translated speech of the other person’s reply, you just have to press the second language button before letting him speak. Perfect translation of course is not expected all the time due to syntax differences in languages.
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