Honor’s Magic V5 was introduced in China last month, and it’s rolling out to European markets in the next few weeks. In conjunction with that, today the brand is highlighting the phone’s on-device AI real-time call translation.
This feature uses “the industry’s first on-device large speech model”, which only has an 800MB footprint on the phone, while including six language packs (Chinese, English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian).
Honor says you can “speak-as-you-go” as the device provides real-time translation, showcased in the screenshot above. As it doesn’t wait for a full sentence to be finished, it’s much more seamless, and there’s an advertised 38% increase in inference speed and a 16% increase in translation accuracy too.
So, as long as you’re translating to and from one of the aforementioned languages, the entire auto-translation process should be very fast as it’s handled entirely on-device, and you don’t have to wait and pause while the translation is working, you can just speak normally.
Honor proudly says “this is a significant step forward for real-time multilingual communication, with direct consumer benefits ranging from international business calls to travel and everyday cross-language conversations – all while ensuring privacy”.