Getting directions and talking to traffic cops while driving abroad just got a little easier.
Driving in foreign countries is a wonderfully liberating way to expand your vacation options, but it comes with certain challenges. We covered the essential ones, and now we've found a product that helps alleviate one of the most prominent: the language barrier. The Translator earbuds from Timekettle won't read road signs for you, but they do make it easier to ask for directions and talk to the police.
Translating with a book or app works, but each has its limitations. We've tried both, and apps like Google Translate and Apple's Translate make it much, much easier, but you can't always count on a robust cellular data network when you need them in real time.
With the cheaper M3 earbuds, you need to speak one at a time. Each speaker will also need to touch the earbud when they're ready to speak so the software knows which microphone to listen to and which to ignore. Spend literally twice as much on the WT2 Edge earbuds, and you'll get bidirectional translation that can handle both people talking at the same time, no touching the earbuds required.
As for the translation itself, we found it to be pretty good but far from perfect. Like most translators, it doesn't understand colloquialisms, slang, and turns of phrase, and it does its best to translate everything you say literally. We ran into a few cases where one of us used a word that either didn't have a direct translation or had multiple meanings—including slang interpretations—and the software got it wildly wrong.
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