Google’s $159 Pixel Buds wireless earbuds can help you speak a language you don’t know - petersonnotat1992

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Google's Pixel Buds earbuds look comparable just another pair of wireless earbuds. Simply the $159 Pixel 2 accessories do something different: They'll help you translate a conversation into a words you don't already know.

The Picture element 2 smartphone lacks a headphone jack, just the new Google Pixel Buds tie in via Bluetooth to the Pixel 2, and tie into the Google Assistant that's already on the phone. Of track, they'll work corresponding perpendicular wireless earbuds, with up to 24 hours of battery life and a ordained charging case in three colors.

With any modal earbud, you'd possess to bear your phone and speak into it. With the Google Pixel Buds, you can hold down the flop earbud and start speaking—and the Pel 2 will render your instructions, such as seeking taboo directions to a coffee bar.

google pixel buds carrying case 2 — Google's Pixel Buds earbuds, in Sort of Amobarbital sodium, inside their carrying shell.

Information technology's when you try to hold a conversation with soul in a foreign language that the Google Picture element Buds magic takes postponement. If you tap the earbud and state something, the Pel 2 phone will translate your speech, playing them back through a speaker to your recipient. Whatever the other person says will be translated and and then played punt through your earbuds, eliminating any distractions from the speaker's voice or ambient noise. Up to 40 languages are supported, Google says. We don't know right at present, however, whether the real-time translation capabilities will work with other Android phones, or just the Pel 2.

google pixel buds — Here's what the Clearly White River version of the Google Pel Buds testament look like in your ear.

Google says that the revolutionary Pixel Buds earbuds are available for preorder today. Pixel Buds move into triad colours—Sensible Black, Clearly White and Kinda Blue—the same colours as the Pixel 2. Google hasn't set a specific ship date; all the society has said is they'll be available in November. The preorder page says the products will send on in half a dozen or seven weeks, putting the ship date somewhere between Nov 15 and November 22.

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