Andrew Ochoa is a millennial entrepreneur who found an innovative way to aid people in their everyday communication. Ochoa came up with an earpiece that translates speech into the wearer’s known language, breaking the language barrier between people. The Pilot Speech Translator translates through speech or through text. The wearer of the earpiece can hear the conversation translated into his or her own language, or translate by text through the Pilot Speech Translator app. This earpiece is an incredible innovation for the business world, because now people all over the world can hold a conversation with one another without being impeded by the language barrier. It also is an incredible tool to aid foreign exchange students, students learning another language, and world travelers. The business for this translator was founded in 2014 and is called Waverly Labs. Currently the number of languages that can be translated are limited, but the company has plans to add more. The earpiece serves as normal earbuds to play music as an additional feature. This is a great innovation because it can be marketed  to almost everyone. In a world surrounded by people from different countries this is a great new way to easily communicate with people we otherwise would have never spoken to.

Ochoa saw a communication barrier, decided it was a problem, and took action to solve that problem. This innovation showed me that everyday things we do (speaking) has room for innovation, if we simply take a step back and see things differently. When I first saw this new innovation, it made me think about the tower of Babel. God purposefully confused people’s language so that they would be unable to understand one another and would not think too much of their capabilities. Now a new innovation is trying to break the barrier that God created, which intrigues me.  

http://www.waverlylabs.com/