It reportedly has the capability to translate languages in real-time during voice calls, video calls, and face-to-face. The feature is said to be better than language translation on Google’s Pixel Buds as the former doesn’t require an active internet connection.

  • @SkybreakerEngineer
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    3510 months ago

    A device that performs live translations? Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

    • @[email protected]
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      2610 months ago

      When it turns out that it will gather huge amounts of data and sell it for advertising purposes? Shaka, when the walls fell.

        • @ours
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          410 months ago

          That’s the whole point of “on-device AI”. It should all be happening directly on the buds.

          • @ours
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            910 months ago

            “Can I have a drink please”

            Will translate smoothly to:

            “Can I have a cold refreshing Coca-Cola™ please?”

      • @_stranger_
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        510 months ago

        Google, it’s pockets laden. (meh, they already have listening devices everywhere, two more won’t really make a difference)

        • @Gamoc
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          210 months ago

          Samsung isn’t Google…

          • @_stranger_
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            Sokath, his eyes covered. (Samsung has tons of phones and mics everywhere too) Does anyone actually use Bixby though?

            • @Gamoc
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              110 months ago

              They do, yes. Samsung I mean, Bixby is useless.

  • ryan213
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    2010 months ago

    Do they come in fish varieties?

    • @wmassingham
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      No, but it’s a hell of a lot easier to put huge language datasets into the machine learning blender and get a model out, instead of manually programming every conceivable linguistic construction.

      • @ours
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        210 months ago

        Oh and it likely has to do speech-to-text first, another good fit for machine learning models.

    • @ours
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      710 months ago

      Once again the buzzword “AI” is vague. It’s likely a chip that runs a deep-learning-based model for translation. Deep learning has excellent results in translation

      So not AI in the LLM like ChatGPT.

      • @lledrtx
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        310 months ago

        As a machine learning researcher who spends all my time with other researchers, we all hate the word “AI” used to describe LLMs also

  • @[email protected]
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    210 months ago

    Is it a feature of the Galaxy Buds or a feature of the Galaxy S24? They say this is better than the Pixel Buds because it doesn’t require an internet connection, but the Pixel Buds do not have language translation at all. They’re headphones you connect to a phone that has language translation, and it’s the phone that needs internet to work. If it were a feature of the Galaxy Buds that would be much more impressive, but since the article doesn’t say exactly, it’s unlikely that the Galaxy Buds actually have real-time language translation at all and it’s just phone software and marketing.

    • gandarf
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      610 months ago

      From the article:

      Apparently, Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy Buds will feature on-device AI

      The on-device (mentioned a few areas) would lead me to believe it’s the buds themselves, despite it being also on the phone.