I tried using the offline mode, which requires downloading language "packs" to the phone, but right now Bragi's translation only works when you're connected to the internet. We measured an average of a two-second delay between speaking through one end and the audio playing on the other, on both Wi-Fi and LTE. It began with me wearing the Dash Pro and my friend using the phone. It was pretty good at knowing when I'd finished a sentence - which again was denoted with a tone sound. To translate from the Bragi, however, you can just tap on the left earbud, wait until you hear the tone, and start speaking. When normally using the iTranslate audio function you're presented with two flag icons that indicate the languages you've chosen. I could only try the former method for now, but I expect doing it bud-to-bud isn't too different, just a tad more convenient. Either one person wears the earbuds while the other listens and speaks through the smartphone or you can do earbud-to-earbud, but this requires both people to have the Bragi Dash Pro - the chances of that happening in a cross-language encounter are slim. There are two ways the Bragi Dash Pro can translate. I know this is mostly a test of the capabilities of iTranslate and not the Dash itself, but I wanted to see how fluid a conversation could be when using the earbuds. To try out Bragi's new tool I roped in a friend who's fluent in conversational Spanish and Portuguese. Once I'd done that I was set to go, but you need to do this every time you want to use the translator. Without doing this, you can still hear translations, but you can't speak them back into the earbud. With the Pro paired to your phone you need to go into iTranslate and tap the Bluetooth button to find the Dash Pro - which then sends you back into the Bragi app to make a connection again to the Bragi. Bragi is offering a free month's trial with purchase of the Dash Pro, but you can also get a free month just by signing up to iTranslate.Īctually getting the Dash to talk to iTranslate is a bit more of a process than I expected. All earsĪgain, Bragi's translation isn't local, which means you'll need to a) have the iTranslate app running to use it and b) have an iTranslate Pro subscription - $4.99 a month. It's a wonderful feeling, that sense of positive rapport when you can speak to someone in their mother tongue, but what if one day we could just do it while speaking our own language? How close to the dream has Bragi got? We put it to the test. Bragi provides an interface so you can translate from the earbud and through the phone - and vice versa - while iTranslate does the brainwork. Its new Dash Pro offers real-time translation, as does the original Bragi Dash, but it relies on the third-party app iTranslate. Pilot promises to do it this year, while Doppler recently showed me a working real-time translation demo on its Here Ones, and tells me it plans to have a version of it later this year.īragi is first to the door, sort of. Of the many benefits that hearables and AR will bring, breaking down language barriers is one of the most exciting.
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