Wearable App Development

Acouva is a San Francisco-based producer and distributor of innovative wireless earbuds. These wearables rely on advanced conducting and equalizer technology to provide customers with impeccable sound quality.

Acouva had an idea to build a companion app to enable remote control and add unique functionality to their smart earbuds. To implement this idea, the company needed an experienced wearable application development firm with deep industry, technology and trend insight.

Digiteum has provided full-cycle wearable app development services, including app design, development and deployment. Today, Acouva app offers diverse capabilities and features, including remote sound personalization, earbuds configuration, multilingual interpretation and translation for voice and text messages.

In the future, the client plans to extend the feature set for the app and add functionality such as audio playback directly on device.

Acouva voice chat was designed as an intuitive messenger for voice and text communication. Based on the Twilio platform, the chat provides a wide range of communication options, including group and one-on-one voice and text chats, media file exchange, chat invites, etc.

The key feature, however, is the real-time multilingual interpretation that allows chat participants to keep conversations in their native languages and have their messages translated into recipient languages with little latency. To make this happen, the participants need to choose their languages as a first step. Then, the system powered by Microsoft Azure Speech Translation translates the messages typed or recorded via the mic in the earbuds into the recipient language. As a result, chat participants have a seamless multilingual experience. In turn, Acouva earbuds become an indispensable tool for intercultural communication.

This business case shows how to enhance the utility of wearable technology with app development.

• Full-cycle wearable application development service, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Native Android app development service and iOS app development service.
• Native Android (Kotlin) and iOS (Swift) companion app that enables device remote control and enhances its features.
• Twilio-based voice and text chat designed according to the brand’s unique look and feel.
• Real-time multilingual AI translation powered by Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services (Speech Translation).
• Modern engineering practices including pair programming, code review, git-flow workflow used on the project.