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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
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
Yeah, something tells me that’s gonna need a persistent internet connection.
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.
There’s no way airpods have the power or compute to do that (anytime soon). It’ll be via phone or mac.
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!!
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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).
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