Samsung to add real-time translation to smartphone model

A woman walks past an advertisement for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Z Flip5 smartphones at a Samsung Electronics store in Seoul on Oct 31, 2023. The new real-time translation feature will be incorporated into Samsung’s new Galaxy flagship model, which will launch early next year, the representative said. — AFP

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics will roll out a real-time call translation service using AI technology next year, the firm told AFP on Nov 10, claiming it would make conversing across languages as easy as “turning on closed captions”.

Samsung is among a host of tech companies spending billions in a global artificial intelligence gold rush, which has so far seen chatbots that mimic human speech and software that can generate lifelike images and videos.