The latest version of the Vasco Translator V4, portable translator from Polish company Vasco Electronics, received the essential technological award. It was “Japan Design Award,” sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion. 200,000 copies of Vasco Translator V3 have been sold to date. Of which 1,000 on the Japanese crowdfunding platform Makuake in just one month.
The premiere of the V4 version took place in September 2022. Still, it received its first design awards before it appeared on the market. The first one was the Red Dot Award for the best design in the Communication Technology category. The second one was the NY Product Design Award in the Conceptual – Digital, Electronic Devices & Accessories category. In 2020, its earlier Mini2 variant received the top prize in the GLOMO competition in the Best Connected Consumer Device category.
Technical details of Vasco Translator V4
Equipped with a 5-inch screen, Vasco Translator V4 works online in over 150 countries thanks to a pre-installed SIM card. It speaks 75 languages, and translates photo captions from 108 languages in no more than 0.5 seconds. All of that thanks to servers located all over the world. The accuracy is 96% thanks to using as many as 10 engines. And selecting algorithms for specific language pairs based on Google, Microsoft, and Baidu tools. Thanks to the MultiTalk application, you can create a multilingual chat for up to 100 people. Each of whom speaks their language, which is excellent during conferences. The device works like an online chat but with the option of translation. Each user chooses their language, and the conversation can take place using a keyboard or a microphone. Price: $400.
More about business
Established in 2008, the Krakow-based company currently employs over 100 people. They design, programme, and produce technological and IT solutions for mobile devices, including speech translators and electronic dictionaries. Vasco offers several solutions that facilitate communication in foreign languages almost all over the world. It has sales representatives throughout Europe, controlling over 70% of the market share. It also operates in the USA, having 20% of the market there. And in Asian markets, e.g., Indonesia, Malaysia, India, China, and Japan. Translators are used not only by individual customers but also by large corporations and public administration institutions. Vasco developed a device that enables deaf-blind people to communicate directly and at a distance as well.
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