Acer has already announced a series of new AI powered products in the ongoing Computex 2025 event. Among the various launches, the Acer AI TransBuds standout as a pretty handy gadget. These earbuds utilizes artificial intelligence to make multilingual communication easier.

Acer AI TransBuds: Breaking down the language barrier in conversations

The Taiwanese tech giant unveiled the AI TransBuds as a pair of lightweight and compact earbuds that can be paired with a smartphone or tablet via a plug-in receiver. Once connected, the earbuds are capable of real time two way voice translation by employing AI powered technology to allow speech recognition and semantic analysis. This makes it quite useful in breaking down the language barrier in communication.

Apart from just real time translation, the Acer AI TransBuds also come with support for live captioning and transcription. In other words, your conversation can be noted down and stored, allowing you to review it later on. The company claims that the AI powered system currently supports 15 major languages that are spoken across Asia, Europe, and even North and South America.

Unfortunately, Acer has yet to announce the pricing and availability details regarding these AI earbuds. In related news, the company also unveiled the Acer FreeSense Ring, which is another AI powered smart ring that will take on the Galaxy Ring and Oura Ring. There was also the new ultra lightweight Swift Edge 14 AI that weighs less than 1kg and has a 3K OLED display. Similarly, the Aspire 16 AI laptops are an AI enabled notebook series that comes in the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen AI, and Snapdragon X platforms.

For more daily updates, please visit our News Section.

Tech enthusiast? Get the latest news first! Follow our Telegram channel and subscribe to our free newsletter for your daily tech fix!

The post These Acer earbuds use AI for real-time voice translation appeared first on Gizmochina.

Google has done an appreciable job with the amalgamation of Pixel 6 and machine learning. Each feature on the smartphone is enhanced and furnished with the help of AI. On top of that, the Google Tensor chipset further improvises some features and the performance of the overall smartphone. Among the exciting Pixel 6 features, Live Translate is another useful feature that is currently exclusive for the Pixel 6 series. However, a little workaround can help you get in a feature on your old Pixel smartphone. Let’s see how in the guide below

Must See: Some Google Pixel 6 units get Camera-based Heart Rate & Respiratory Tracking

The Pixel 6 exclusive feature – Live Translate, is now easily available for old Pixels. Unlike what Google said at the Pixel 6 launch event, the Live Translate feature works flawlessly on Pixel 4a without Google Tensor. Magic Eraser was also acclaimed to be optimized by Google Tensor on Pixel 6, but it also worked on previous Pixel devices without any problem.

You can easily install the ASI – Android System Intelligence ported from Pixel 6 to grab the feature without any additional setting. As revealed by Twitter user @abhinav_937, the feature runs without any flaw on a non-rooted device. He tested it on the Pixel 4a by installing the latest Pixel 6 ASI apk.

What is Live Translate on Pixel 6?

Google Translation is already a productivity tool, having millions of daily users communicating across languages. It’s been widely used across the globe via different platforms including Twitter, YouTube, and other important services to ease communications. The search giant is actively working to improve its communication and translation services with the advent of new techniques and ways.

In such a step, Google introduced Live Translate with Pixel 6 series to translate the text across different third-party apps. Using the Google Tensor AI prowess, the app offers automatic translation of text messages on Google Messages, WhatsApp, and another conversation app in your native or default language. It works two-way, as Google Translate even translates your reply into the sender’s native language. Live Translate works in sync with Gboard while typing the reply and further enhances the functionality.

It is a full overhaul of Google Translate capabilities in a more integrated manner. Live Translate feature can even transcribe the audio in a video to your native language in real-time. The offline capability of Live Translate is an additional advantage that boosts its overall usability.

Steps to get Live Translate on Old Pixels

It is quite easy to enable the Live Translate feature on your old Pixel smartphone. Precisely follows the steps below:

1. Download the Pixel 6 latest ASI ( Android System Intelligence) from here.
2. Install the APK on the old Pixel device without any additional settings.
3. Now go to Settings > System > Live Translate will be available.
4. Download the preferred language, and see it working in your favorite messaging app. Note. It is working on messaging app only.
5. Enjoy!!

Currently, the feature is working, but we’re not sure about the future as Google may switch it off on old Pixels via the backend. If you found it working apart from the ASI version, then do let us know via the comments below.

Related: Some Pixel 6 features can be enabled on older Pixels through this Google Camera update

The post How to get Pixel 6 Live Translate feature on Old Pixels appeared first on Gizmochina.

Amazon has just announced that its virtual assistant, Alexa now supports a Live Translation feature, allowing users who speak different languages to communicate with each other. The complex process will involve the virtual assistant translating both sides of such a conversation.

At the moment, Alexa can translate English, Spanish, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Hindi, with the Live Translation feature. Amazon said the feature is supported on Echo devices with the location set to English U.S.

The Live Translation feature draws support from existing Amazon systems and features, including Alexa’s automatic-speech-recognition (ASR) and its text-to-speech systems.  These, in combination with Amazon Translate, as well as the whole gamut of Amazon’s machine learning models, designed and optimized for conversational-speech translation all combine seamlessly to produce the Live Translation feature, Amazon said in a recent statement.

The berthing of this translation feature opens up new vistas in real-time communication, providing exciting possibilities with the seeming demolition of the communication barrier. 

Similar to what obtains with most ASR systems, Amazon said that the live translation system incorporates both an acoustic model and a language model, both models combining to provide insights for the ASR system to decide between alternative interpretations of the same sequence of phonemes.

To provide users with a near-natural experience, Amazon adapted Alexa to a conversational speech by modifying its end-pointer to accommodate longer pauses for the Live Translation feature. Alexa uses the end-pointer to determine when a person has finished speaking. Alexa can also easily identify pauses in the middle and end of sentences.

Search engine giant Google also offers a similar feature called Interpreter Mode. It is yet to be seen how the two services square up side by side, but this certainly provides an additional option for live translation and inter-language communication. 

UP NEXT: Poll of The Week: Have you received the Android 11 update?

The post Amazon’s Echo devices get a Live Translation feature appeared first on Gizmochina.