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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.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Claims not to need active internet connection

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well I’d like to see that… so the ads will be preloaded?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

"Can I have a drink please"

Will translate smoothly to:

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That's the whole point of "on-device AI". It should all be happening directly on the buds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do they come in fish varieties?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You just have to remeber to flip them on.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

It's like a real life babelfish

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Does translation need actual AI?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Yes, as the semantic of words is context dependent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 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] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Lets stay at LLM and not AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I hope they come in yellow.