Google showed headphones with automatic translation

2017-10-06 09:35

Google showed headphones with automatic translation
The function is only available paired with smartphones Pixel.

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At the presentation in San Francisco Google has introduced not only a new smartphone and a laptop, reports Rus.Media. It also expanded the range of devices. Having gone the way of the Apple company refused the headphone Jack on the newer phones Pixel 2/2 XL and introduced wireless headphones buds Google, writes AIN.

Right earpiece buds is equipped with a touch controller, which allows you to control the sound, make calls and switch songs with a swipe. If you just touch the headset, turn on assistant Google Assitant. He can tell direction, create reminders, read and send messages and control music.

But the main function of the Assistant is available only in pair with smartphones Pixel is the integration with Google translate Translate. He translated the spoken language into the headphones to one of 40 languages and are then able to translate back the reply from the other person speaking in another language.

Complete with buds will go to a special case. It is used for recharging and is equipped with a battery capacity of 620 mAh. How to say Google, that should be enough for listening to music for 24 hours. The headphones themselves are able to work for five hours without recharging.

As smartphones Pixel 2, buds headphones will be sold in three colors: black, white, and blue, in sale they will appear in November.

Another addition in the hardware line, Google has become compact camera Clips. Its main competitive advantage — built-in machine learning. It has no screen or microphone, and shutter release button located on the front panel to make it easier to do a selfie. But she also wanted to give up, because Clips can decide what to remove.

The camera is always on, and a neural network to analyze what she sees and shoot small clips, similar to the “live ” pictures” iPhone. When the camera sees the people, their faces, it analyzes the situation and takes off. To view photos on the phone, choosing your favorite clips, or cut out a particular shot with him.

It looks like one of the clips, removed Clips:

Product description — “Google camera that recognizes the face of your family and automatically removes” — sounds scary. But Google believes that the problem with privacy should not be, because the device clearly looks like a camera, and while shooting it the light is blinking. The operation of neural networks occurs directly on the camera and the data isn’t sent until the connected smartphone.

As for the specifications, the Clips feature a 12-megapixel sensor and has a review of 130 degrees. It can only be removed with a series of 15 frames per second, saving them as 16 GB of internal memory. In standby mode the battery should last for a few days. Start date sales still unknown.

Recall the presentation, Google revealed that the time of the new Pixelbook battery up to 10 hoursand 15 minutes charging will allow the device to work for another two hours. The device is based on processors Core i5 or i7 processor. Depending on the configuration Pixelbook has or 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal, or 16/512 GB.