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Featuring Niléane of MacStories: https://www.macstories.net/author/nileane/
Comfort Zone: https://www.macstories.net/comfort-zone/
Testing #Apple #AirPods Live Translation feature using #AirPodsPro 3 in the Apple Translate app.
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Music composed by Will Davenport, arranged by D. Griffin Jones
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Good evening. I'm De Griffin Jones with
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Cult of Mac and I am joined today by
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Neil of Mac stories and today we are
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going to be testing the automatic
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AirPods language translation feature.
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Uh I know absolutely nothing about the
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French language other than when you're
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reading it, the the rule of thumb is to
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just ignore half of the letters and just
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go really fast. That that's all I know
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about French. So, how much of that word
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salad is going to show up properly
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translated? I don't know. Welcome
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[Music]
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I have very random translations in what
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you just told yourself, but I think I
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understood overall.
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He speaks the translation speaks in
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particular of salad, which makes no
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sense. I imagine you were not talking
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about salad.
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I was not in fact, but uh you know what
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is your favorite type of salad while
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we're at it?
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What?
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I don't think I'm a rabbit and I'm not
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really a fan of rabbit salad. What I
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just read makes no sense, but it's very
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funny.
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Maybe all salad is rabbit salad and you
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know, you are a human and maybe we
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should respect that.
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[Music]
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Honestly, it didn't really make much
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sense in English uh what I just said.
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So,
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but in any case, you have the house rule
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to read French.
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It is indeed to ignore most of the
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letters and to have had a very good
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French teacher at school.
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In American school, you usually have
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like the choice of two languages to
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learn, Spanish and French. They say that
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the best time to learn a second language
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is when you're like as young as
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possible. So naturally in the United
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States, we do the opposite of what the
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research shows and we start learning at
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like 14 or 15.
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Here we start learning English much
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earlier.
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Sometimes in primary school, that is to
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say when we have less
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six or seven years.
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Yeah, that that would be the way to do
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it, you would think.
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Yes.
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Clearly. And overall,
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what do you think of the English
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translations of what I am saying? Do you
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think they are of good quality?
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I, you know, I I I'm pretty impressed so
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far. I I know that Apple translate isn't
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really as good as Google Translate. They
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I mean, for this feature, they only
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support like literally four other
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languages. Uh you know that I feel like
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we are having at least some modicum of a
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reasonable conversation.
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Stumbling blocks aside,
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it's true.
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It's true that the conversation takes
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place and we can understand each other.
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I imagine that in real life,
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[Music]
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ambient sound levels are high. Try
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moving iPhone closer to the audio source
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to continue translation. If you were a
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rabbit salad seller and I was a buyer,
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you could have helped me when you don't
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speak French at all and I don't speak
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English at all. Besides, it's wrong. I
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speak English. The AirPods briefly
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interrupted what you just said to say
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that ambient sound levels are high and I
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should move closer to you.
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It's probably because Yes.
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You're in a market with many other salad
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sellers for there.
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[Laughter]
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I do think it was interesting that that
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was the example that Apple used in their
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keynote for showing off this feature
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because that is often, you know, the
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situation that you're in when you're
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abroad. I went to Vietnam and a lot of
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the communication was just by by
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pointing and typing numbers into a
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calculator to uh haggle about price.
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I imagine it must be complicated, but at
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the same time
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Maybe it could take away magic from
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going to countries where you don't speak
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much the language and it could take a
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little effort away in going to countries
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where you don't speak the language at
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all.
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And at least, you know, most European
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countries, a dumb American like me could
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at least learn a few words that we can
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say poorly but good enough for somebody
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else to understand. In Vietnam, there
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was absolutely no hope. It's a language
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that depends on so much annunciation and
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there's just virtually nothing in common
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with English.
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What do you think about the fact that
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the feature is not available in the
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European Union? I I think Apple lawyers
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have maybe stepped in and now they're
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saying, "Wait, hey, hey, hey, hey, now
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any feature that could possibly be
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construed as breaking the the DMA, the
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the lawyers are stepping in and say,
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"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up, hold up,
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hold up. We we we don't want another big
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legal battle here." You know, there's
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the war term that's like you don't want
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to face a battle on two fronts.
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What are we talking about?
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Do we leave it at that?
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Have we proven that the fault of the
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demo works?
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Yeah, we've proven that it works. Uh, I
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guess one last question. You are, of
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course, an afficionado of Orange, which
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I'm surprised you're not representing
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more in your video here. You said on
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your podcast that you were disappointed
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in the iPhone 17 Pro Orange, and I think
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that was maybe your initial reaction
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after watching the event. Has your
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opinion changed anymore in the week and
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a half since?
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That's a great question and my opinion
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hasn't changed.
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The orange Apple chose for the iPhone 17
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Pro is in my opinion the wrong orange.
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They chose an orange that is too dark,
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quite saturated, and does not tend
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enough towards yellow. There are too
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many chestnuts also in this shade of
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orange. I'm not a fan of it, but I say
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it is a defender of the orange color. So
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it means that my word takes precedence
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over all the others.
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Let's say that apple and color science
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is complicated.
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Six colors. They had it right in 1977.
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[Laughter]
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Yes, it's true.
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People can find you on the comfort zone
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podcast on Max stories and you can
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you're you can find well you've already
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found me. You're already watching my
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video if you're watching this. But uh
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like and subscribe. Thank you for your
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time. Mercy.
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Thank you.