40 LANGUAGES In One Device... But Does it Work?

[@AKJoel]

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[@ohno-zx4if]

In a few years with the way Ai is advancing those earbuds will instantly be able to translate. It’s an incredible invention and will definitely get better in times

[@AKJoel]

I can't wait to see how it works in a year or 2. Really gonna be good for those of us doing multi country trips. We're actually gonna visit 4 or 5 countries in Asia next year so will be great to give the earbuds a try over there.

[@Niles-Guy]

Love how you left her hanging when giving her the ear piece . She was like WTF dude 😂

[@AKJoel]

hahaha I didn't even notice it at the time but when I was editing I was like "definitely gotta put this in" lol

[@iamjaydunn]

This is great. A month ago I bought ear buds for me and my driver. Just using the conversation mode on Google translate when he is driving and it made communication really easy.. I will have to try these out.

[@AKJoel]

Let me know how you go and if they're useful!

[@sbrown9020]

Good stuff. This is also helpful for ones like me .... i know some Spanish. Definitely not fluent but this could help in learning more Spanish

[@AKJoel]

Yeah definitely - make sure you review the chat transcripts when you get home - I think that's the best feature for learning.

[@rafael8184]

It has to improve a lot but is a good beginning.

[@AKJoel]

Yeah it's better than anything else out right now! once they iron out a few kinks and improve the speed of translation it'll be much better.

[@TimekettleTech]

Thank you! We will. :）

[@seanwithford7560]

Creo que voy a continuar practicando español. Si es díficil, pero eventualmente vale la pena! Me parece que las personas también van a apreciar que tu has aprendido una lengua nueva para comunicar con ellos

[@AKJoel]

Tienes razon, este no es una forma de subsutir espanol - solo sirve los que pasan poco tiempo en Colombia y no vale la pena gastar mucho tiempo para aprender espanol.

[@BestFriendOfJesus]

Cool video man, might buy these!

[@AKJoel]

Let me know how they go!

[@charleslenchner2654]

Very useful!

[@AKJoel]

Cheers Charles! I hope you're doing well wherever you're living these days mate!

[@Whole.Phantom]

I rarely text on my phone because doing so frequently hurts my fingers and hands, in much the same way that you will get carpal tunnel from using a keyboard too often. So often times I will use voice-to-text transcription. And you know what? It doesn't work that well. If I were to take my best guess I would say it's accurate only about 80% of the time at the absolute most, but possibly less. But think about it, to understand well and be consistent you really need to have accuracy around 95% I've used voice to text on numerous phones, and always have the same problem, in almost every sentence is it gets at least one word wrong. Just why I typically just send audio messages unless I'm making a live call. Now given the fact that the phone is just supposed to be going from English to English, that is simply typing out what you are saying, I can't imagine how much worse it would be trying to swap languages in the process. Devices like these may have a purpose and place in certain situations, but they will never replace actually learning the language in question

[@AKJoel]

You're right but accurate 80% of the time is probably good enough for someone who doesn't know a single word of Spanish and is just visiting for a short amount of time.

[@JWinch]

A problem with phone apps - at least on Android but probably any phone - is the companies that do speech recognition rely on the speech recognition of Google (or Apple I guess) who bizarrely only picks only ONE accent of a widely used language like Spanish or English. Microsoft I think has 3 different versions of Spanish in its speech recognition. There are a VERY FEW apps that allow you to not use Google (or Apple)'s speech recognition. I found at least one add-on for Android that let me do Colombian Spanish, however as natives will tell you, there are multiple accents of Spanish as natives from Medellin, Cartagena, and Bogota speak quite differently. Also there is one Android app that is mainly for dictation that is specifically for Colombian Spanish. In tests with people from a few different parts of Colombia (Bucaramanga, Boyaca, Tolima) that one seemed best. However, I had one Colombian girlfriend who just refused to not speak very fast and all the speech recognition parts could not keep up. Also, the standard speech recognition in Android (from Google) stops listening anymore after short pauses. In general, I found the various apps frustrating, but better than nothing. Maybe this device is not using speech recognition from the phone OS vendor (i.e... Google or Apple) so maybe it will be better. Also, assuming the speech recognition part recognizes all the words correctly, there is a major problem with Spanish-to-English translation in general that has nothing to do with speech recognition: implicit pronouns in Spanish (and verb conjugations that produce the same word for different tenses/person). So you get translations in English with present tense verbs with I when the speaker meant 3rd person single past tense or various other mixups. I tell my Spanish speakers to NOT skip the pronouns even though grammatically speaking they are supposed to be unnecessary. The main translation engines (Google by far is the most widely used) cannot properly read the overall context to figure out what the person meant when they skipped the pronoun or used a verb conjugation that is identical for very different meanings.

[@TimekettleTech]

Hello sir, thank you so much for your feedback! Referring to your concerns, we work with global mainstream translation service providers including Google, Microsoft, DeepL, etc. We support 20 accents for Spanish, namely Spain, USA, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Dominica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Salvador. As for your main concern of speech recognition, we have confidence in this part, based on the fact that Timekettle translator earbuds are widely used in US schools, which is mainly for helping ESL students study. It has been tested well by many school committees and decided to purchase. A large number of ESL students are speaking Spanish.

[@JohnCasto1]

super cool, tech will eventually catch up and translate in real time - that's when the game changes with this type of technology

[@AKJoel]

Yeah exactly - it's the best product out there right now and as soon as the tech is able to translate faster it's gonna be much better!

[@allencoffland1685]

they should just download the software on to a headset with microphone in front of mouth and communicating wirelessly, would limit errors caused by ambient noise

[@AKJoel]

They market the earbuds as having high level noise cancelling - I think the biggest issue was when we spoke long sentences - it struggled to keep up. But with short sentences and no slang it seems to work well.

[@alencelic]

Use this with your phone outside on the street asking locals, and I guarantee you you won't have your phone anymore in couple of hours lol

[@mr_jamaican]

😂😂😂😂

[@AKJoel]

Yeah walking in the streets of Medellin using this is not recommended - but in a safe place like a restaurant or cafe can be very useful.

[@CubanLibertarian]

Big papaya in Colombia. Safe in El Salvador, though.

[@GeronimoLogistics]

Good stuff thanks

[@AKJoel]

Glad ya enjoyed it mate!

[@tanweerahmed6861]

How it is different from google translator?

[@AKJoel]

You get headphones which you can give to another person and it translates in real time - you don't need to look at a screen like Google translate.

[@tanweerahmed6861]

@@AKJoel you can do the same with using google translate in conversation mode with Bluetooth headset , no need to see screen in the scenario also

[@mikemaldanado6015]

This is nothingnew and these cost 5-10x more than other models. I recommend the J4 language earbuds (with speakerphone ) for 33$.

[@JZGreengo]

I’d like to see this but an addition to this, using AI to use my voice in Spanish, now that would be interesting, also something to recognize my tone and expressions so it’s not so robotic… in the mean time, I’ll stick with learning Spanish though but I do like this stuff though

[@AKJoel]

Yeah that would be awesome - a lot of communication is through pacing and tone!

[@awakeaware9708]

Looks Interesting . Can you get by for a while with only English in pablato ?

[@AKJoel]

Depends what you want to do - if you just want to speak to other foreigners then yes English is fine. If you want to speak to Colombians, then no.

[@ArihantYuvraaj]

1:42 Hahahahaha....

[@gnolan4281]

A device that can distinguish between accents is intriguing. It's true, just as in other languages, there are so many accents in Spanish. When I moved to Medellin in 2016 I'd already been speaking Spanish every day for decades but I had a hard time understanding the Antioquia Paisa accent. Not understanding their accent was a new experience for me because I easily understand all the other Colombian accents. Once I'd learned the language I thought my troubles were over but Paisa is Paisa and after more than seven years full time in Medellin I still sometimes have to ask people to repeat themselves two or three times 'cause I have no idea what they're are saying. I know the vocabulary well enough but it's the accent that I have trouble with. And during the pandemic with all those masks covering everybody's mouth for almost two years it was, shall we say, further complicated.

[@AKJoel]

Yeah that's the hardest thing about Spanish. you can learn one type of Spanish from a certain region (let's say Paisa Spanish) then go to a different region in the SAME country (let's say Cartagena) and there's a fair chance you won't understand anything hahaha

[@TimekettleTech]

Hello, dear, you are absolutely right! The pandemic makes communication even harder, thanks god we are now having a normal life, It will become better. As for distinguishing the accents, Timekettle translator earbuds support 20 for Spanish, namely Spain, USA, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Dominica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Salvador. It will be helpful for communicate with people who do not speak your native language.

[@choopa1670]

Yeah nah. Not for me. But good to see tech going in the right direction. Would like to know if it can be used with no internet

[@AKJoel]

Yeah some of the languages (including Spanish) can be downloaded to the device and used in offline mode.

[@hamid1106]

Samsung S24 phones have offline translators

[@bradmyrick1149]

I tried the Timekettle on my first trip. They worked about 20% of the time. Any background noise you can forget it

[@TimekettleTech]

Hello dear, how do you think about it?

[@AKJoel]

I had a bit of background noise in the cafe in the last part of the video - and although not perfect it seemed to work okay. Where did you try yours?

[@bradmyrick1149]

@@AKJoel in Panama and Colombia

[@bradmyrick1149]

@@TimekettleTech very disappointed

[@TimekettleTech]

@@bradmyrick1149 Hello dear, which model do you have?

[@fredmiami7841]

Outrageous price with very little improvement over the first version. The lag in translation makes it close to unusable for near-natural conversations. I expect regular Google AI (Gemini) to be able to make apps like this irrelevant.

[@TimekettleTech]

Hello friend, have you ever tried our other models of translator?

[@AKJoel]

Yeah I noticed an issue with long phrases causing significant lag - right now it's optimal for short sentences only.

[@kraigrichard7043]

OMG !!!

[@codyhadrianreid]

How is this better than google translate?

[@AKJoel]

It has earbuds that you can share that have real time translation - you can speak to each other without looking at any screens.

[@Skip125]

Why not just learn Spanish?

[@Ryan-ul7dy]

Too much time for some people. I know someone that only lives in Medellín 6 months out of the year. Maintaining a high level, not just arriving at it, is at least 1 hour of exposure or deliberate practice per day.

[@AKJoel]

As we said in the video this is better suited for someone who's just visiting a country for a few weeks and needs to get by. Also great for someone who might be travelling to many different countries where they speak various languages. Obviously the best way to communicate is to learn Spanish but that may be too much effort for someone who only visits a week or 2 per year.

[@robertjackson3779]

I'm going to buy them. But I hope it will not help become lazy in learning Spanish lol

[@AKJoel]

You should use the transcription feature as a way to learn Spanish. Use the device and at the end of the day go home and study all your conversations - it'll help you understand how Medellin locals construct phrases, what slang they use etc.

[@robertjackson3779]

@AKJoel Thanks Joel . Will do.

[@nycrypto_investor]

I think I'm better off speaking my New Yorican spanish lol

[@AKJoel]

haha how does New Yorican Spanish sound?

[@nycrypto_investor]

@@AKJoel Good enough to get me by 😉 New Yorican = Puerto Rican raised in NYC.

[@Black_Thai_Adventures]

Spanish is not that difficult to learn. Spend the $350 on a good Spanish course and have a much more organic experience.

[@AKJoel]

True - learning Spanish will give you a much better experience - but this is great for people who just visit a couple of weeks a year or visit many countries and can't learn every language.

[@adonleon]

Very slow by the looks

[@AKJoel]

I asked the brand about that and they said it's because if the long sentences I was using - they said it works much faster if you use shorter sentences.

[@carlosets1]

Ojo que en Colombia se los roban... lol

[@AKJoel]

jajaja si tienes tazon!

[@turbinetech3000]

Quiero apprendar espanol. No me gusto technologica de bill gates ademais la internet sera no trabajar en futuro.