The InnAIO T10 AI Translator introduces a novel magnetic disc design that attaches to smartphones for real-time translations, supporting over 150 languages. While it offers innovative features like voice cloning and meeting summaries, the device relies heavily on an internet connection and a subscription model. WIRED's review highlights its potential but criticizes the rough app interface and limitations.
The InnAIO T10 is a compact, 2-inch diameter Bluetooth disc that magnetically clips to the back of modern smartphones, including those with MagSafe. It features a single button for power and microphone activation, housing a processor trained on GPT-4.1 for language processing. The device supports more than 150 languages, though many are regional variants of major ones like Spanish and English.
To function, the T10 connects via Bluetooth to a phone and requires an internet connection for most operations; offline mode is slated for December. The accompanying InnAIO Pro app includes seven translation modes. Real-Time Translation provides automatic two-way text conversion between speakers, detecting languages without button presses and outperforming the iPhone 16's built-in system in speed.
Face-to-Face mode adds spoken output but needs users to hold a microphone button, with a slight delay in processing. Cross-APP allows translated speech to insert directly into messaging apps like WhatsApp via a floating window, though it audibly plays translations only to the user. Phone call translation is cumbersome, requiring a shared link to InnAIO's service, and testing showed it only handled one direction (English to Spanish) reliably.
Additional features include a Meeting mode that records, transcribes, and generates AI summaries or Mind Maps, limited to 5,000 characters—about six to seven minutes. Voice cloning creates a personalized speech simulacrum from sample sentences, sounding eerily accurate with accents in languages like Spanish or Russian, though only one clone is stored by default.
The 60-mAh battery offers 15 hours of use and 100 days standby, charging via USB-C. However, after 180 days of free access, subscriptions start at $14 monthly for 600 minutes or $25 for unlimited, with basic functions remaining free. The app's interface suffers from poor translations, including untranslated Chinese elements, making it feel underdeveloped.
Overall, the T10's unique design solves some translation hardware issues but introduces new ones, leading WIRED to deem it not fully recommendable yet due to its haphazard execution and costly subscriptions.