The American company Microsoft has demonstrated at a conference in Las Vegas an interpreter hologram developed specifically for the HoloLens mixed reality glasses.
The hologram technology developed by Microsoft suggests its use in devices that support augmented reality - for example, HoloLens glasses or smartphones with corresponding applications. Last year the company opened several studios called Mixed Reality to capture digital copies of people with motion capture, and now the hologram has finally been taught to speak.
Using an algorithm developed by Azure, a digital copy of a person can be supplemented with a recording of his speech synthesized from text and translated into the desired language. At the Microsoft Inspire conference in Las Vegas, Azure CEO Julia White demonstrated this technology to the public. Her hologram read the speech in Japanese with a native speaker using text-to-speech technology.
The developers believe that the technology of the holographic translator will be useful for speaking in front of a multilingual audience. So far, this requires a preliminary creation of a digital copy of a person, as well as recording, translation and broadcasting of his speech. Whether this technology is capable of working in simultaneous interpretation mode, which is often required in speeches, is still unknown.
Alexander Ponomarev