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Limitless Communication
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Most of us have found ourselves in the awkward situation advancements in today’s technology where eye becomes a key to
of trying to communicate in a foreign language. Sometimes unlock a phone.
it’s funny. Sometimes it’s embarrassing. And sometimes
it’s downright disastrous. But thanks to a new translation
device that easily fits into your ear, the days of struggling
to speak the local lingo might soon be a thing of the past. Will our eyes be our keys?
But how does it work? First, the earbuds pick up
background noise and interference, effectively recording a
mixture of the users’ voice and other sounds, this system
BY: IAN CHRISTOPHER
uses machine learning to identify what language is being
PESIGAN
spoken within a couple of seconds. Then, through the use
of Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Natural
language processing machines it convert the recorded Biometrics are the unique The light isn’t harmful to the eye;
speech into a string of phonemes and lastly, through the use characteristics of the individual that it’s the same technology that
of speech synthesis or Text-to-Speech analysis to differentiate him or her from any ophthalmologists use when
synthesizes natural sounding speech from a string of words other person. It distinguishes and checking for glaucoma, or that
separate us from one another. That hospitals use in scanning for
was the main reason why it is the diabetes. The scan itself poses no
most perfect way of unlocking your threat to the eye or to your
phone which contains all your overall health, though users of
private infos. A retina scan is retinal scans complain of
exactly what it sounds like: a discomfort from the technology
machine that looks below your iris as they must lean in and keep
to scan the retina at the base of your their eye close to the machine for
eyeball. Since each person’s retina is 30 seconds in order for a scan to
unique, the scan offers security akin be accurate.
to a fingerprint -- only retinas cannot
be copied. The scanner emits a low-
level beam of light to illuminate the
back of eye while
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