Imagine the wars this could start

[Taro Toporific]

Google Pixel Buds Are Wireless Earbuds That Translate Conversations In Real Time(arstechnica.com)
SlashDot Wednesday October 04, 2017 @08:05PM from the future-is-now dept.
At its hardware event today, Google debuted new wireless earbuds, dubbed "Pixel Buds." These are Google's first wireless earbuds that give users access to Google Translate so they can have conversations with people who speak a different language. Ars Technica reports:

Unlike Apple's AirPods, the Pixel Buds have a wire connecting the two earpieces. However, that wire doesn't connect to a smartphone or other device. Pixel Buds will pair via Bluetooth to the new Pixel smartphones -- and presumably any other devices that accept Bluetooth wireless earbuds. All of the Pixel Buds' controls are built in to the right earpiece, which is a common hardware solution on wireless earbuds. You can access Google Assistant by tapping or pressing on the right earbud, and the Assistant will be able to read notifications and messages to you through the Buds.

But the most intriguing feature of the Pixel Buds is the integrated Google Translate feature. Demoed on stage at Google's event today, this feature lets two Pixel Bud wearers chat in their native languages by translating conversations in real time. In the demo, a native English speaker and a native Swedish speaker had a conversation with each other, both using their native languages. Google Translate translated the languages for each user. There was barely any lag time in between the speaker saying a phrase and the Buds' hearing those words and translating them into the appropriate language. The Pixel Buds will use Google Translate to comprehend conversations in 40 different languages.
Some other features include a 5-hour battery life, and a charging case that can hold up to 24 hours of battery life. They're available for preorder today for $159.

[Russell]

Google Pixel Buds Are Wireless Earbuds That Translate Conversations In Real Time(arstechnica.com)
SlashDot Wednesday October 04, 2017 @08:05PM from the future-is-now dept.
At its hardware event today, Google debuted new wireless earbuds, dubbed "Pixel Buds." These are Google's first wireless earbuds that give users access to Google Translate so they can have conversations with people who speak a different language. Ars Technica reports:

Unlike Apple's AirPods, the Pixel Buds have a wire connecting the two earpieces. However, that wire doesn't connect to a smartphone or other device. Pixel Buds will pair via Bluetooth to the new Pixel smartphones -- and presumably any other devices that accept Bluetooth wireless earbuds. All of the Pixel Buds' controls are built in to the right earpiece, which is a common hardware solution on wireless earbuds. You can access Google Assistant by tapping or pressing on the right earbud, and the Assistant will be able to read notifications and messages to you through the Buds.

But the most intriguing feature of the Pixel Buds is the integrated Google Translate feature. Demoed on stage at Google's event today, this feature lets two Pixel Bud wearers chat in their native languages by translating conversations in real time. In the demo, a native English speaker and a native Swedish speaker had a conversation with each other, both using their native languages. Google Translate translated the languages for each user. There was barely any lag time in between the speaker saying a phrase and the Buds' hearing those words and translating them into the appropriate language. The Pixel Buds will use Google Translate to comprehend conversations in 40 different languages.
Some other features include a 5-hour battery life, and a charging case that can hold up to 24 hours of battery life. They're available for preorder today for $159.

And I spent all those hours learning Japanese.

All for nuthing...

[Coligny]

^^^^^^
Tsss sucker...

[Russell]

I should've put that fish in my ear some 25 years ago...

[Grumpy Gramps]

But the most intriguing feature of the Pixel Buds is the integrated Google Translate feature. Demoed on stage at Google's event today, this feature lets two Pixel Bud wearers chat in their native languages by translating conversations in real time. In the demo, a native English speaker and a native Swedish speaker had a conversation with each other, both using their native languages. Google Translate translated the languages for each user.

Google Translate has still ways to go for translations that are not to/from English IMO. Japanese <-> German is pretty horrible. But if it's to/from English, the machine translators have come a long way from the old Babelfish days.

And finally we don't have to learn languages anymore, just to be accused of the big "cultural appropriation" no-no. And if Google speaks for us, we can't be held responsible for what it says, which is very good

[Coligny]

I should've put that fish in my ear some 25 years ago...

You really feel the need to make everything sekshual, do you ?

[Russell]

I should've put that fish in my ear some 25 years ago...

You really feel the need to make everything sekshual, do you ?

You obviously didn't read the book...

[Coligny]

I should've put that fish in my ear some 25 years ago...

You really feel the need to make everything sekshual, do you ?

You obviously didn't read the book...

I'm more of a color-by-number books kind of guy...

[legion]

I should've put that fish in my ear some 25 years ago...

You really feel the need to make everything sekshual, do you ?

You obviously didn't read the book...

I'm more of a color-by-number books kind of guy...

I find that infinitely improbable

You can't count

[Russell]

I should've put that fish in my ear some 25 years ago...

You really feel the need to make everything sekshual, do you ?

You obviously didn't read the book...

I'm more of a color-by-number books kind of guy...

I find that infinitely improbable

You can't count

Does it matter?

As long as he knows that the answer is 42...

[Coligny]

Fook yooze allz...