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Live Translation Coming to AirPods (www.macrumors.com)
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[-] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I don't have Apple products but I've been saying this is a feature I expected them to beat everyone else to. Honestly I thought we were going to see something like this back in 2023. I assumed it was going to require the newest iPhone, airpods, and an Apple AI subscription but if it works as well as Apple products tend to then I bet this will be incredible. Tapping your phone to someone else's, putting in some headphones and just talking in your own languages has been a sci-fi dream since the 40s. Combined with live translation of text you can already do in Apple Vision Pro, language barriers are going to start melting away

[-] Endmaker@ani.social 9 points 3 days ago

Babel fish?

[-] cloudless@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Introducing the all new Apple AirBabel with Apple Intelligence.

[-] rkcurio@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Prior to the launch of ‌iOS 26‌, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that the AirPods would get a translate feature for translating in-person conversations, and it looks like Apple is working on introducing it soon.

that's gonna be so so great, to be honest

[-] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, something tells me that’s gonna need a persistent internet connection.

[-] Endmaker@ani.social 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If it has to be live (i.e. works in real-time), doing the translation in a server elsewhere is probably a bad idea due to the latency.

It makes more sense to run an optimised translation model locally - ideally in the AirPods directly but if not, on the connected iPhone.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

There's no way airpods have the power or compute to do that (anytime soon). It'll be via phone or mac.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

They’ll probably use it as a way to sell the iPhone 17, claiming previous iPhones don’t have the necessary computing power, but the new processor does!!

[-] cloudless@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I am waiting for the next generation AirPods Pro with better call quality.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

That’s already arriving with iOS26 and the AirPods Pro new firmware. The A/B results from it are outstanding. No need for new hardware (for once).

[-] cloudless@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

That's good to know.

The AirPods Pro gen2 was released nearly 3 years ago. I'm not sure if it is the right time for me to buy one now, or wait for the next gen.

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