BabelFish: A Seamless Solution to Communicate with Multi-Lingual Individuals

Abstract

The goal of our work is to build a tool that allows any number of people to communicate comfortably in their native language with anyone around the globe in real time. As globalization and the mixing of economies grows throughout the world people from different locales will need to constantly be communicating with each other to collaborate and get work done. This collaboration will oftentimes include crucial conversations where language barriers might be an obstacle that prevents efficient work from getting done. We want to demonstrate that a server-less implementation of the MQTT protocol and by leveraging google’s translation engine, that seamless native communication can happen between multiple individuals who speak different languages. To accomplish this goal we will develop a rudimentary chat application which will allow one user to type a message in their native language and have that language translate in transit to the other users preferred language. By offering this feature users from around the globe will be able to feel confident that they can communicate complex thoughts and ideas to anyone anywhere and will be a huge boon to industry as our global economy continues to get more tightly coupled.