Google’s Airpods competitor do real-time language translation
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#2This looks fantastic. Love my Airpods, but the 'tap for Siri' feature so rarely works for me, let alone language translation. Language translation is clearly an area Google is really pioneering too.
Shame about the cable though. The one (surprising) benefit of no cable is that the cable doesn't tug on the earphones, making them less likely to come out.
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#3I can't wait until I start getting ads for things I talked about.
Re: Google’s Airpods competitor do real-time language translation
#4This looks fantastic. Love my Airpods, but the 'tap for Siri' feature so rarely works for me, let alone language translation. Language translation is clearly an area Google is really pioneering too. Shame about the cable though. The one (surprising) benefit of no cable is that the cable doesn't tug on the earphones, making them less likely to come out.
My immediate thought is that the cable will greatly diminish the chance of losing one or both. Never thought about the tugging.
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#6Discussion on Ars Technica article from 3 hours ago (125 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15402483
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#7Can someone explain? Since everything is done on the cloud what is so special about these buds? Why can't you do the same with a regular headset (which also has a microphone) and Google Assistant running on any Android or iOS device?
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#8Can someone explain? Since everything is done on the cloud what is so special about these buds? Why can't you do the same with a regular headset (which also has a microphone) and Google Assistant running on any Android or iOS device?
It is possible NOT everything is done on cloud. It is normal that parts of the model reside on the device itself, for efficiency concerns.
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#9I really think they could have come up with a better name. This whole presentation just felt awkward with headphones jack removal, AirPods clone, portrait mode for photos, Live Photo’s clone, AR demos...and on top of that these pixel buds with camera that will be forgotten and abandoned just like most of the stuff google does
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#10Can someone explain? Since everything is done on the cloud what is so special about these buds? Why can't you do the same with a regular headset (which also has a microphone) and Google Assistant running on any Android or iOS device?
I think everyone by now has paid attention to the success of Apple and realized that people will pay much more for hardware than software. As long as Google maintains leadership in this area, there's a lot of benefit to them to tying their software to high-end hardware and not much downside.