Will there be a popular consumer "live audio translator" device (like a "babel fish") by the end of 2024?
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Let's take "popular" to mean sells at least 1 million units worldwide.
It doesn't need to be a universal translator—for example Spanish -> English counts.
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Resolving as NO: looks like the technology is almost there (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31GU1DZWXUc for example) but hasn't quite cleared the "popular" threshold
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