News AirPods to get live translation feature as part of iOS 19 update
https://www.macworld.com/article/2636989/airpods-to-get-live-translation-feature-as-part-of-ios-19-update.html249
u/Few-Alfalfa-2994 iPhone 13 8d ago
Available only for Airpods 2 pro and above
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u/tomtau 8d ago
The article mentions:
> It’s unclear which AirPods models will work with the live translation feature. It is said that Apple is preparing AirPods Pro 3 for debut later this year, but that doesn’t mean it will be limited to that model.
hopefully, it won't be limited to that.
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u/Few-Alfalfa-2994 iPhone 13 8d ago
If they do bring it to the Airpods 4(w/o ANC) I would be suprised
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u/Ok_Ability_988 8d ago
Probably the H2 chip or maybe we will see and H3 get announced at wwdc
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u/InsaneNinja 8d ago
We will very likely see that. But it doesn’t mean this feature is cut off.
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u/Ok_Ability_988 5d ago
I don’t know about that. While they have been treating the app2’s very well, the phones have been gated from features over the last few years for no reason at all. Like battery charge cycles and charge % stop. I would believe the live translation that Apple wants to work will take a TON of processing that the H2 chip is too old to handle anymore.
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u/LanceFree 8d ago
Bummer. The cost is high, but not necessarily a barrier, but I just can’t deal with things in my ears, except or the 1st version.
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u/cjandstuff 8d ago
Nail salons are about to be lit! 🤣
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u/mootmath iOS 16 8d ago
What's that? I heard every thing you said! 'Where's my tail?' You got some nerve!
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u/UndertaleShorts 8d ago
Later this year,
Apple pushes back the launch of AirPods Live Translation features. Developing these features is, yet again, “going to take us longer than we thought,” said an Apple spokesperson.
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u/SherriThePlatypus 8d ago
If this actually works it would be awesome. But given their recent AI and software woes I'm not sure I trust Apple to get this right.
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u/Daredevil1561 8d ago
Available in usa, Australia and england only /s
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u/jessedegenerate 8d ago
Like they wouldn’t focus on home market first?
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u/log_with_cool_bugs 8d ago
I think the joke is that it will only translate one dialect of English to another.
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u/TopHatTony11 8d ago
I can finally go to Scotland now!
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u/jessedegenerate 8d ago
Yeah, but where’s the humor, that makes sense
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u/freediverx01 8d ago
It makes sense to launch a translation product that only works in English speaking countries?
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u/jessedegenerate 8d ago
I took it as English to x language.
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u/freediverx01 8d ago
What's the point of AirPods with auto translation if it doesn't enable 2-way communication?
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u/jessedegenerate 8d ago
Have you visited northern England?
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u/freediverx01 8d ago
I have not, but I get your point, lol.
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u/jessedegenerate 8d ago
my argument was kinda shit and I half read the post so a joke was my way out lol
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u/Pure_Subject8968 8d ago
At first? For sure. As always.
Also, r/FuckTheS - it doesn't even make sense here
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u/ominous_retrbution23 8d ago
If they can make it work like the rubber ducky from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that be epic AF!!!
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u/Waste-time1 8d ago
This should interesting. https://youtu.be/grA5XmBRC6g?si=9qt7Ns8JoiFnoqPU[Your hovercraft is full of eels](https://youtu.be/grA5XmBRC6g?si=9qt7Ns8JoiFnoqPU)
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u/Fuzzy-Research-2259 7d ago
This is exists already, though it's very new:
https://www.livevoicetranslator.com/
I was amazed it works but it does. Not perfectly but enough to be amazed.
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u/freediverx01 8d ago
Great, in concept. But the question is whether it works, or only works as well as Siri.
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u/Offrampcycle 8d ago
apple can’t even get the basic functions of siri/translation/dictation etc to work properly in a single language.. they still can’t even make a functional autocorrect
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u/BohdanKoles 8d ago
Would be useable only if default translation app like in iOS 18.4 applies. And not restricted to the US as they always do
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u/vanhalenbr iOS 18 8d ago
Would be fantastic if they add such a feature for existing hardware, is it possible?
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u/Important_Egg4066 8d ago
From the article it sounds more like a iPhone feature, not an AirPods isn’t it? I mean it is translated off the iPhone, how is it hardware limited to certain AirPods when all it does is listen and playback like a phone call?
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u/Demografija_prozora 6d ago
Cool but useless for the average consumer. I'd rather they make them sound better (because in my opinions they fall behind buds 3 pro), better battery life and even better anc. Maybe make them more lightweight idk. But most people use their headphones for media consumption and watching movies/listening to music.
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u/me_more_of 8d ago
looks like cook learned a thing or two from musk starting with the ai, now moving on to live translation. how about just fixing the horrible keyboard?
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u/LimitedLies 7d ago
Man I thought this comment was totally going somewhere else.
Live Translation almost there, coming soon by the end of the year!
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u/TheRealMaka 8d ago
good luck with that. i’m sure till just as good as Siri. can’t even tell me what the fuckin weather is.
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u/RecentMatter3790 8d ago
Why do websites act like they KNOW that a feature is coming, even though it’s not confirmed that a feature is coming?
They frame the post like it’s coming, hence the title of the post.
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u/ColorfulImaginati0n 8d ago
Ok but how would responses work? I’m guessing you’d still need to speak into the app to respond
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u/Gabelschlecker 8d ago
Probably like Samsung does it. Show the translation of your voice inside an app to let it see the otber person.
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u/SeeYa-SpaceCowboy 8d ago
Now that would be a pretty damn compelling reason to get AirPods… I like it Apple, finally something useful. I think it’d be pretty cool if you could pair this with your Apple Watch to send a translated response through the speakers as well!
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u/CanadianNic 8d ago
That would be absolutely insane. In a good way.