{"id":156753,"date":"2023-02-01T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/waverly-labs-launches-a-translation-app-called-forum-with-support-for-20-languages"},"modified":"2023-02-01T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T19:23:06","slug":"waverly-labs-launches-a-translation-app-called-forum-with-support-for-20-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/waverly-labs-launches-a-translation-app-called-forum-with-support-for-20-languages","title":{"rendered":"Waverly Labs launches a translation app called Forum with support for 20 languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/waverly-labs-launches-a-translation-app-called-forum-with-support-for-20-languages2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Waverly Labs, the company behind <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/01\/05\/waverly-labs-new-wearable-translater-arrives-in-april-at-200\/\">wearables focused on translation<\/a>, has launched an app called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waverlylabs.com\/forum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum<\/a> that helps users translate and transcribe audio in real time. The company says the solution is useful for lecturers, auditoriums and theaters. What\u2019s more, it is also compatible with video calling apps like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet.<\/p>\n<p>Forum is available on iOS and accessible through a browser. The app\u2019s Android version will launch by the end of this quarter. It supports 20 languages and 42 dialects, including Arabic, Dutch, English, Hindi, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. Users can join an existing session or create one and share a QR code with others.<\/p>\n<p>Users have the option to switch to a new language in the middle of the session to get text and audio translation. There is also a profanity filter to block words that users don\u2019t want to see in a chat. Forum also has hold-to-talk and pause-to-translate modes for a conversation that doesn\u2019t need instantaneous conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waverly Labs, the company behind wearables focused on translation, has launched an app called Forum that helps users translate and transcribe audio in real time. The company says the solution is useful for lecturers, auditoriums and theaters. What\u2019s more, it is also compatible with video calling apps like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. Forum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}