Samsung: real-time translation as easy as making a phone call

Samsung's next Galaxy will feature a real-time translation tool based on artificial intelligence and directly integrated into the call function.
Samsung is to integrate a translation tool based on artificial intelligence into its new range of Galaxy smartphones.
Samsung is to integrate a translation tool based on artificial intelligence into its new range of Galaxy smartphones.

Samsung is taking another step towards breaking down the language barrier. Expected early next year, the Galaxy S24 smartphone range will offer a real-time translation tool based on artificial intelligence, AI Live Translate Call. Conversing with a Chinese colleague, a Saudi client or a Brazilian prospect, each in their native language: business travellers will find that professional exchanges are made easier, with their phone acting as their "translator". personal translator.

While third-party applications could already perform this function, what's new is the native integration of the translation tool to the call functionAll without the need for these private conversations to 'leave' the phone. As Samsung describes it, " audio and text translations will appear in real time as you speakThis will make it as easy to call someone who speaks another language as it is to activate closed captions when watching a programme on streaming." .

As Samsung begins to roll out the artificial intelligence experience in its smartphones Galaxy AI through real-time translation, we can expect further innovations in terms of productivity and creativity. " Galaxy AI, our most comprehensive intelligence offering to date, will forever change the way we design our phones" warns Wonjoon Choi, EVP and Head of R&D, Mobile eXperience Business.

All the more so as, alongside Galaxy AI, Samsung is developing its own generative AI model called Samsung Gauss. Used internally before being extended to Samsung products, the Samsung Gauss Language makes it easier to writing e-mailsdocument summarisation and content translation. For its part, the Samsung Gauss Image generative image model makes it possible to generate and edit creative images, while converting low-resolution images to high-resolution. AI or the start of a new era for mobile applications?