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Next Samsung Galaxy Buds to have on-device AI for language translation

www.sammobile.com Next Galaxy Buds could offer on-device AI for real-time language translation

Samsung's next-generation Galaxy Buds wireless earbuds are expected to feature on-device AI for real-time language translation during calls.

It reportedly has the capability to translate languages in real-time during voice calls, video calls, and face-to-face. The feature is said to be better than language translation on Google's Pixel Buds as the former doesn't require an active internet connection.

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A device that performs live translations? Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
- When it turns out that it will gather huge amounts of data and sell it for advertising purposes? Shaka, when the walls fell.
  
  Claims not to need active internet connection
  
  Google, it's pockets laden. (meh, they already have listening devices everywhere, two more won't really make a difference)
Do they come in fish varieties?
- You just have to remeber to flip them on.
It's like a real life babelfish
Does translation need actual AI?
- No, but it's a hell of a lot easier to put huge language datasets into the machine learning blender and get a model out, instead of manually programming every conceivable linguistic construction.
  
  Oh and it likely has to do speech-to-text first, another good fit for machine learning models.
- Yes, as the semantic of words is context dependent.
- Once again the buzzword "AI" is vague. It's likely a chip that runs a deep-learning-based model for translation. Deep learning has excellent results in translation
  
  So not AI in the LLM like ChatGPT.
  
  As a machine learning researcher who spends all my time with other researchers, we all hate the word "AI" used to describe LLMs also
- AIs are way better at it.
  
  Lets stay at LLM and not AI.
Is it a feature of the Galaxy Buds or a feature of the Galaxy S24? They say this is better than the Pixel Buds because it doesn't require an internet connection, but the Pixel Buds do not have language translation at all. They're headphones you connect to a phone that has language translation, and it's the phone that needs internet to work. If it were a feature of the Galaxy Buds that would be much more impressive, but since the article doesn't say exactly, it's unlikely that the Galaxy Buds actually have real-time language translation at all and it's just phone software and marketing.
- From the article:
  
  Apparently, Samsung's next-generation Galaxy Buds will feature on-device AI
  
  The on-device (mentioned a few areas) would lead me to believe it's the buds themselves, despite it being also on the phone.
I hope they come in yellow.

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