Yes, I realize that there is an existing product with the same name

Concept

  • A portable (battery-run) triangular translator device
  • Two e-ink displays, each facing different side
    • How fast can those displays be? - can they update as one speaks?
  • Directional microphones
    • No keyboard = speech recognition should be as accurate as possible
  • General LLM (not medical LLM) to do translation
  • A dial to change language?
  • A button (on either side) to start talking, a button to delete the last part spoken?
  • A thermal printer at the top to print the conversation to take home

Gemma Translator Brings Completely Offline AI Translation to Raspberry Pi 5

I ran into this article a day after I thought about the project.