3PO is a speech-to-speech, real time translator.
Designed with simplicity in mind.
A non-profit giveback project to make it easier for everyone to help each other in multi-lingual environments (e.g. Olympics, hospitality industry or simply learning a new language.)
3PO has three unique features:
Zero configuration: Your conversation partner can speak in any of the 45 languages (or even use multiple languages), you will hear them translated automatically. When you speak, it will be translated for him/her.
"Sci-fi" Mode: Give one ear pod to your partner to converse in different languages discreetly (Only one phone is needed.)
"Tune-in" Mode: Have 3PO listen in background, translate announcements and play translated speech to your headphone as it happens.
1) Unlike Google Translate, you do not need to select which language you are translating from.
2) Furthermore, multiple languages can be used within the same conversation, minimizing friction as you interact with multiple speakers.
This is particularly helpful where multiple languages are used in day-to-day interactions
For example, discussions in Eastern Ukraine may happen in Ukrainian or Russian. Restaurant staff in China may speak in local dialects (such as Cantonese or Sichuan) instead of Mandarin.
This is an important step forward towards achieving near real-time, multi-lingual communication.
• Communicate with strangers quickly, with low friction
• Listen to broadcasts easily
Example scenarios:
• Someone is in need of help, but you don’t know what he/she is talking about nor in which language.
• When travelling, you know something important is being broadcasted, but you have no clue what’s going on.
Now, you can just launch 3PO to “tune in”.
Asia: Chinese (普通话、粤语、四川话、山东话), Bengali / Gujarati / Hindi / Kannada / Marathi / Malayalam / Tamil / Telugu, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese
The Middle East & Africa: Arabic
Europe: Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian