Apple has recently focused more as a welfare-focused makeover of airpods, compared to hacking them as plain wireless earbuds. Later last year, Airpods Pro 2, with a hearing testing system and hearing aid feature, featured a loud sound reduction.
Now, the company is allegedly monitored by a converted upgradation for them. According to Bloomberg, Apple plans to bring a real -time translation feature to Airpods later this year. The focus is on removing language barrier for in-tradition conversations.
This feature is called in active development and can be rolled out through a software update later this year, tied to the iOS 19 bundle. It is a two-way translation system where airpods and iPhone play a similar role.
how it works?
The iPhone translation will serve as the hub. This language will translate A to Language B, send translated audio to a person wearing apple earbuds. Meanwhile, Language B will be translated into Language A, and translated audio stream will be played through the iPhone speaker for another person.
It is not clear that the translation engine is going to use Apple, nor mentioned in the report whether it is going to be an AI -ssified approach and how many languages the system will support. In any way, the convenience is meaningful, but the Apple will not be the first in the market.
Apple is late for game
Google’s Pixel-branded wireless earbuds have offered this facility for some time. The company has relied on the Google translation stack to allow translation to about four dozen languages. Users can choose between live conversion modes for direct voice chat, or relying on transcarib mode.
Apart from Google, many other brands have also jumped on the “translation earbuds” bandwagan. The earproes offered earlier this year also offer Airpro 4+ Earbuds, AI-powered real-time translation tricks. Mymanu Click and Mars Earbuds are offering Perk from 2017.
Even a “translation earbuds” is Ala, where products such as TimeKetal X1 provide language translation facilities for business and enterprise customers. Meanwhile, AI chatbots such as Google’s Gemini also provide language translation features.
In case of Apple, the company can go in any direction. The company already has a partnership with Openai, which puts a chatgpt in the driving seat for every occasion, where the Siri comes low. Neural machine translations have also developed dramatically and there are many open-sources models that are ready to move there.
For example, Meta opened its AI-assisted translation tool, which supports approximately 200 languages, in 2022 in 2022. Nevertheless, given Apple’s confidentiality-first approach, the company will either stick to a reliable partner or even deploy its own tech stacks that can demonstrate on-device translations, which is faster than the cloud-foods format.
