How easy/tough it will be for Apple to allow this?
"allow"? As in, you think Apple has been holding back permission of some kind?
Google’s Airpods competitor do real-time language translation
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#22Does this require an internet connection? The vast majority of the times I've needed something like this in my life it has either been in very rural places where there is no internet service or in a foreign country where I do not want to pay the exorbitant roaming data fees.
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#23This 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.
the cable also means you can't wear just one bud at a time.
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#24Can 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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#25This 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.
Dozens of the "conjoined" BT headsets on Amazon - tried a couple of cheaper ones and the fit is an issue.
Could never run with those, but I've run/biked with AirPods with no problems (I thought I might lose one but it was really a non issue if they fit properly in the first place).
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#26Can you cut the cable between them? Or is it more than just a tether?
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#27How easy/tough it will be for Apple to allow this?
Do they have any way to not allow this? How could they stop it?
The original comment might not be from a native english speaker. Presumably, they mean 'How difficult is it for Apple to clone this feature?'
It is likely incredible hard to do well by themselves from now, but there's a chance they could pay Google for an API.
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#28Does this require an internet connection? The vast majority of the times I've needed something like this in my life it has either been in very rural places where there is no internet service or in a foreign country where I do not want to pay the exorbitant roaming data fees.
I can't speak for these, but I assume they are based on Google Translate, which does offline translation on-device when configured to do so. It needs to download a pre-trained kernel for each language, but once done, it can handle it offline.
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#29Posting from the other thread here too...
The "translate conversations in real-time" part seems to have nothing to do with the Google Pixel Buds - it's already live in the Google Translate app.
In fact, you can try it right now. Open the Google Translate app on android, put on a pair of headphones with a mic, and tap the audio translation. As you hear spoken word in another language, it'll translate in realtime back to your non-google headphones.
*note - The trick is you need to press the button so it enables translation across both languages, as that seems to be the only way to keep translation on even after the first phrase.
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#30"They’re wired behind the neck but they’re every bit a competitor to Apple’s AirPods"
Umm, no. The killer feature of AirPods is the form factor and not having an annoying cable connecting the buds. As other posters have noted, Amazon is full of cabled headphones. Language translation is certainly cool, but for most people that's not an everyday need.