Simplifying Google’s Gemma Translator
Google’s Gemma Translator has become quite popular since the project was released as open source a few weeks back, and plenty of makers are now building versions of their own. It’s easy to see why. The device is made from accessible hardware like the Raspberry Pi 5, and it is capable of translating conversations between languages as they happen. Best of all, the entire process happens locally, so an internet connection isn’t required.
The original Gemma Translator is already fairly approachable, but it does require quite a collection of hardware. In addition to the Raspberry Pi 5, there is a separate display, microphone, speaker, push buttons, rotary encoder, and all of the wiring needed to connect everything together. Jdaie Lin recently built his own version and found a much simpler way to assemble essentially the same device.
The Whisplay HAT+ (📷: Jdaie Lin)
Lin’s design reduces the hardware to just...
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