Team: Uno Translate

Team Participants:

  • Logan Garcia

  • Kimberly Ard

  • Natasya Hadiwijaya

  • Rucha Nandgirikar

  • Brandon Montalvo

  • Matthew Tan

“We grow community. People rely on accurate translation to learn, work and connect.”

Problem

Existing translation tools often miss important context and nuance, leading to incorrect translations. They struggle with idioms, cultural references, and ambiguous words, resulting in translations that lack accuracy and readability. This can hinder communication, understanding, and inclusivity across different languages and cultures.

Technical Solution

Uno Translate is a real-time translation overlay tool powered by AWS Lambda and Nova Lite 1.0, an AI language model. It provides accurate and contextual translations for over 250 languages, preserving page layout and offering AI-generated summaries with emojis. The solution includes grammar and spelling correction, text-to-speech functionality, and language auto-detection. It aims to improve trust, civic engagement, and social cohesion by serving minority languages and cultural contexts with high readability.

Showcase

Presentation RecordingA recording of AI Summer Camp students presenting their project.
SlideshowThe accompanying slides shown in the video.
Source CodeAll of the code and assets developed during the course of the AI Summer Camp.

About the DxHub

The Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub) is a strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is the world’s first cloud innovation center supported by AWS on a University campus. The primary goal of the DxHub is to provide students with real-world problem-solving experiences by immersing them in the application of proven innovation methods in combination with the latest technologies to solve important challenges in the public sector. The challenges being addressed cover a wide variety of topics including homelessness, evidence-based policing, digital literacy, virtual cybersecurity laboratories and many others. The DxHub leverages the deep subject matter expertise of government, education, and non-profit organizations to clearly understand the customers affected by public sector challenges and develop solutions that meet the customer needs.