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AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 Get iOS 26 Features With New Firmware Update
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That will not work. You will have the original actor’s voices and the translation layered on top with a lag. You will have silly AI voices that struggle to get the exact performances the director wants. That will make it unwatchable.
There are already different audio language tracks with great voice over actors. This is the easiest way to create it in production and has the best audience experience.
About 4 or so years ago, my airpods pro 1 started working really well on Teams on Windows 10.
It's clear, and I sound clear to others. No longer sounded like the Bluetooth earpieces with mono horrible sound.
Airpods pro 2 also sound good, on the laptops in 2 jobs since then.
Maybe it is just a Bluetooth version thing and some laptops/devices don't support whatever the now "good" version is that mine are using?
I wouldn't describe AirPod mics to be phenomenal for conference apps. They don't even place 1st in professional testing and comparisons to the competition. On a phone calls in a semi quiet environment they are fine but not for Teams, Zoom, Webex etc. There's many discussions out there to actually not use voice isolation and only rely on the built in suppression of the app as they both conflict.
The company I currently work for sent everyone wireless Poly Voyager 4320's (which are amazing) to counter the trend of everyone joining meetings with their AirPods. Long ago when I worked for Apple Care AirPods and EarPods wasn't a favorite communicator either for even the internal comms apps they use.
Mine did that too, live laugh love pronunciation of "Live". Made me chuckle even though it wasn't working.
That’s another Apple fail.
1. I had to reboot my phone like Windows 3.1 just to get the Live tab to show up in the Translation app.
2. It can’t pronounce Live properly in the context of ‘Live Translation’.
3. It keeps telling me to download languages and complete set up when I did it already.
4. Squeeze both AirPods at the same time to get a Live Translation. That looks so ridiculous and it means I need a third hand to hold my phone. If I tourist tries this two handed nonsense while juggling their phone they are definitely going to have their phone robbed in a city like NY, Rome, London, Paris. It’s such a clear signal to a thief.
Software is amazing these days. Amazingly stupid.
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Finally got it working after it forces me to download every English dialect and every European language.
But I already understand most popular European languages and don’t need translations. I would like to see Asian languages supported but no Apple does not give us Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai options to download.
I tested Spanish to English translation, it was terrible and messy with mistranslations so no wonder I’m not given any Asian options.
I had downloaded all but English Us and had the error about needing to download the languages.
Seems it defaults to translating to English US, so doesn't work until that's downloaded.
Once downloaded, changed my "To" language to English UK, and deleted English US, and it works still.
It can be started with Siri, or from the Translation app. You don't need to touch the airpods to start it (other than putting them in your ears).
Mine ended up updating on their own but I think plugging them into the Mac might've had something to do with it.
AirPods update much quicker when you plug them into a Mac. Same with Beats headphones/earphones.
That's what I've always done.
That's what I've always done.
The issue here, in Windows 10 & 11, is that after connecting the AP2 (and probably AP3 also) to your laptop is that Teams and other programs default to using the ‘Headset’ Bluetooth profile for microphone and speakers. You can see this in Teams device setting. This codec is ancient and really mangled the sound.
What succeeded as a workaround for me was to go into Teams and set my laptop’s microphone as the main mic. And then set the AP2 ‘headphone’ profile as the speakers. Now both my voice and others sound good.
Basically, avoid the ‘headset’ Bluetooth profile.
I see nearly 6db improvement in ANC on my AirPods Pro 2, without any iOS update yet. This is outstanding.
Pre-ordered AirPods Pro 3, I'm even more excited now.
I was worried the Pro 2 would be unable to keep up with the ANC of the Pro 3, but now it looks like they will be closer indeed. In a room of 56db, my watch tells me my AirPods Pro 2 are only letting 26db through. This is far better than before, where it was 30/32db in the same environment.
Pre-ordered AirPods Pro 3, I'm even more excited now.
I was worried the Pro 2 would be unable to keep up with the ANC of the Pro 3, but now it looks like they will be closer indeed. In a room of 56db, my watch tells me my AirPods Pro 2 are only letting 26db through. This is far better than before, where it was 30/32db in the same environment.
I always get complaints from people with voice isolation on. They say the beginning of everything is cut off.
😮 I never knew you could check that on the watch!
I know of the "loud noise" alerts, but I didn't realise that it told us the dB we're exposed to in our actual ears with airpods. I always thought it was just the watch picking up noise.
I'm currently in adaptive mode, showing 42-50dB with and without airpods. Drops down to 22-24dB with ANC on.
That's all with music playing. Pausing my music doesn't seem to change it, which is smart (because its environment noise indicator)
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This is interesting. Just to clarify, you are saying the Pro 2 improvement has happened after this latest firmware update?
Would be very interested to read your results here after the Pro 3 arrive, as that would be my main reason for upgrading my Pro 2.