Star Trek Translator

[waltky]

Remember the Star Trek translator?...

Google's Wireless Headphones Can Auto-translate
October 04, 2017 — The Latest on Google's new-product showcase (all times local):

10:45 a.m.

Google is introducing wireless headphones as its new line of Pixel smartphones joins the shift away from a headphone jack. Although they will connect wirelessly, the company's Pixel Buds will come with a short cord so you can drape them around your neck. Google removed the headphone jack from the second generation of its Pixel phones to make them thinner and waterproof. The new phones also feature built-in stereo speakers.

Besides playing music, the Pixel buds work with translation software built in the new phones to make it easier to converse in different languages. The translation feature will also be made available in an update to Pixel models released last year. The Pixel buds will sell for almost $160 and ship next month.

Google product manager Juston Payne speaks about Pixel Buds during a launch event in San Francisco, California​

10:30 a.m.

Google is borrowing from Apple's playbook as it takes on its rival in high end of the smartphone market. The second generation of Google's Pixel phones unveiled Wednesday feature larger, brighter screens that take up more of the phone's front, changes that Apple is also making with its iPhone X scheduled to be released next month.

Both the Pixel XL and the 5-inch Pixel will also get rid of the headphone jack, something Apple did with the iPhone last year. Google also souped up the already highly rated camera on the Pixel, boasting that it will take even better photos than the iPhone. The smaller Pixel will sell for almost $650, $50 less than the iPhone 8. The Pixel XL will sell for almost $850, or $50 more than the iPhone 8 Plus. Prices for the iPhone X start at $1,000.

10 a.m.

Google is introducing different sizes of its internet-connected speaker to compete against similar devices from Amazon and Apple. The Google Home Mini unveiled Wednesday is a button-sized speaker covered in fabric. It includes the same features featured in a cylindrical speaker that Google rolled out last year in response to Amazon's Echo. The Mini will cost almost $50, roughly the small price as Amazon's smaller speaker, the Echo Dot. The standard Google Home speaker costs almost $130.

The Google Home Max is a rectangular speaker with superior acoustics for playing music, mimicking Apple's HomePod. Google is selling the Home Max for almost $400, $50 more than the HomePod. Both speakers are due in December. Google's voice-activated digital assistant will serves as the brains for all the speakers.

The Latest: Google's Wireless Headphones Can Auto-translate

 

[Marion Morrison]

Remember the communicators?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

"Tell your uncle if he gets a translator, be sure it speaks Bocce."
- Aunt Beru

 

[Gracie]

Excellent idea! Someone speaking in a language you don't understand, just turn on your translator that "hears" them and its translated to you in your own language..and vice versa.

 

[fncceo]

Some thing need no translation ...

 

[AVISSSER]

Some thing need no translation ...

Uhuru baby...that cat's gay...come over here.

 

[fncceo]

Uhuru baby...that cat's gay...come over here.

They hadn't invented gay-dar yet.

 

[IsaacNewton]

If it doesn't speak Gorn we're f'd. By the way wasn't the Gorn like the old time zombies? Walked slower than an old man with a walker but Kirk had a hell of a time avoiding lizard face. He runs like the wind to chase and fight Finnigan but can't keep his distance from a tortoise. And why would anyone have to walk the halls of the Enterprise. Wouldn't you just transport wherever you needed to go on the ship?

The Prime Directive. Kirk held to or broke that depending on how much coffee he had that morning. He'd wake up and have a sip "Hmm, feels like a break the Prime Directive kind of day."

 

[fncceo]

If it doesn't speak Gorn we're f'd. By the way wasn't the Gorn like the old time zombies? Walked slower than an old man with a walker but Kirk had a hell of a time avoiding lizard face. He runs like the wind to chase and fight Finnigan but can't keep his distance from a tortoise. And why would anyone have to walk the halls of the Enterprise. Wouldn't you just transport wherever you needed to go on the ship?

The Prime Directive. Kirk held to or broke that depending on how much coffee he had that morning. He'd wake up and have a sip "Hmm, feels like a break the Prime Directive kind of day."

"If you're wondering how he eats and breathes. And other science facts, Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show, I should really just relax."

- Mystery Science Theatre 3000

 

[IsaacNewton]

If it doesn't speak Gorn we're f'd. By the way wasn't the Gorn like the old time zombies? Walked slower than an old man with a walker but Kirk had a hell of a time avoiding lizard face. He runs like the wind to chase and fight Finnigan but can't keep his distance from a tortoise. And why would anyone have to walk the halls of the Enterprise. Wouldn't you just transport wherever you needed to go on the ship?

The Prime Directive. Kirk held to or broke that depending on how much coffee he had that morning. He'd wake up and have a sip "Hmm, feels like a break the Prime Directive kind of day."

"If you're wondering how he eats and breathes. And other science facts, Just repeat to yourself "It's just a show, I should really just relax."

- Mystery Science Theatre 3000

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Some thing need no translation ...

Sulu don't play that game.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Some thing need no translation ...

Notice they are all wearing red shirts. In the normal ST world the red shirts were the police, ergo this is a police state.

 

[fncceo]

In the normal ST world the red shirts were the police

Scotty wasn't a cop.

 

[IsaacNewton]

In the normal ST world the red shirts were the police

Scotty wasn't a cop.

He was an engineer/CIA. Didn't you know?

 

[fncceo]

He was an engineer/CIA. Didn't you know?

Engineers are CIA? Wow!

 

[Gracie]

Imagine the looks of horror on faces when two people are snickering and speaking in a foreign language and its being audio recorded then played back to the person they are speaking about...in english. LOL Betcha some mosque's would ban anyone wearing such gadgets.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Excellent idea! Someone speaking in a language you don't understand, just turn on your translator that "hears" them and its translated to you in your own language..and vice versa.

My phone does that already. I use it for that all the time. Damn foreigners! Why won't they just speak Amurican!

 

[Gracie]

Excellent idea! Someone speaking in a language you don't understand, just turn on your translator that "hears" them and its translated to you in your own language..and vice versa.

My phone does that already. I use it for that all the time. Damn foreigners! Why won't they just speak Amurican!

I have an android. I have no clue what this thing is capable of doing. Too gadgetry-ish for me. I miss my flip phone. But..until we are permanently settled..I gotta keep this one.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

have an android. I have no clue what this thing is capable of doing. Too gadgetry-ish for me. I miss my flip phone. But..until we are permanently settled..I gotta keep this one

So do I. It's on your phone (google translate). Just let them speak into your phone and it will recognize the language, and play his words back in English. I deal with a lot of foreigners who speak no English. It works great.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Excellent idea! Someone speaking in a language you don't understand, just turn on your translator that "hears" them and its translated to you in your own language..and vice versa.

My phone does that already. I use it for that all the time. Damn foreigners! Why won't they just speak Amurican!

I have an android. I have no clue what this thing is capable of doing. Too gadgetry-ish for me. I miss my flip phone. But..until we are permanently settled..I gotta keep this one.

Learn it like learning anything else. Learn one thing, get used to it for a few days. Learn something else. I agree that many of these devices have so many features that most people won't use half of them ever. But the other half are quite useful.