Instant Translation – Right in your Ear!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,411 words · ~7 min read
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so um
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every once in a while an email lands in my inbox
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from a weird overseas company
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that isn't about yet another battery bank and this one oh this one caught my
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attention this is
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the wt2
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a real-time translating earphone
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the pitch and their included video suggests
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that you just take one of these twinkie bad boys
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jam it into your ear canal find a friend who doesn't speak the same
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language as you and jam the other one in theirs and you
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can talk to each other with real-time translation
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but could it work
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roseville's orbit z1 mid tower case is RGB ready it's got fans seven color led
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light strips and top i o light control learn more at the link below
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so unboxing wise this is pretty straightforward there's not a lot
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included um no manuals no uh
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no like actual production hardware uh they made it really clear to us this
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is early software early hardware in fact
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they sent us two uh one of which is actually fully 3d printed so let's have
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a look at what we got there's a micro usb charging cable so that goes into the
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outside of the magnetic box that holds
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here we go so this passes the charging
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over to the other side and then it comes with a couple of these little
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uh silicone ear tip pieces so hopefully they'll be slightly less uncomfortable
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those really don't go on there that easily
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all right there we go come on
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okay you have got to be kidding me
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okay here's a design flaw for you guys already
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you have to go through that every time you charge it
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you have to take this off to put it oh why did i take it off
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there's not really a whole lot to the twinkies so there's the charging
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contacts on the inside there's a microphone hole on this side there's a
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little what looks like kind of like a whatsapp logo that illuminates either
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blue when it's pairing or green once it's
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paired and then that also acts as a capacitive button next order of business
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we need the app which is only available for iOS at this time there's no Android
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version so once we've done just a normal bluetooth pairing process
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uh blah blah hey
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all right rock on so now we're connected goes like that yeah there we go
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and it kind of sits in your ear like uh like one of
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those douchey bluetooth headsets from the early 2000s
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and there's two modes so ask mode hit the microphone
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okay i am now saying something oh i think you hold it down i am saying
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something now
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a baby holding down i'm better now
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well that was very close to my intent okay i need someone who actually speaks
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chinese or this is not going to go anywhere i'll be right back
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okay so dennis for the sake of this video can you
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pretend you don't speak any english
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perfect love it
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i brought dennis here for the chat mode so that's a different mode chat mode is
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the real-time translation that really got my attention
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in their original email so uh there's two modes um one of us
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wears the master and the other one wears the slave
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which is a little awkward but you don't understand what i'm saying
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anyway right no english
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explode life please
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this is dennis acting man he's too good
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he's too good so let's try let's try to have a
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conversation hello you seem like a very nice person
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i would like to be your friend
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thank you but you look terrible okay hold on
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what do you mean i look terrible
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england will make a violent circle heart
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well one thing is for certain this does seem to be working fairly well
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i'm glad i know what you truly think about
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thank you i love you okay so now i'm actually not very
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certain if it's working properly
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okay okay let's try one more scenario before we give up okay i got another
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scenario so we've already seen that it's pretty good for like
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you know trying to pick someone up so um okay let's see if it works a little
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better for that okay hey there sexy
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i would like to spend some time with you tonight
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remember first rule of improv is you can never say no
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oh
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i'm a little nervous too baby i've never done anything like this before
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i say we get out of this place and go find somewhere a little more
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comfortable
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i favor get out of this place and you'll find i'm a little more comfortable oh no
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we're both gonna be comfortable that's the idea look how comfortable you feel
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right now
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are you sure you wouldn't rather have something a little stronger
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what
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i'll tell you what dad
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something a little stronger no it's cool baby my dad wants to be
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involved too
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okay okay you know what no no no just okay just
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did that make any sense in chinese i would rather just learn to speak english
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or just use body language
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well i guess with the picking up sort of example the body language could be uh
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you know very uh it doesn't work no okay well i wasn't gonna have success
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with that either way did anything that i was saying makes
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sense in chinese or were you just cheating because you actually understand me
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i would say only 10 to 20
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of the sentences are translated correctly and every time you say take me home
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let's go home together they translate quite well so you get that right at
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least so like what base is this
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you know second base is you know grabbing the breasts i mean when i come
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and stick something in your ear oh you get to touch my ear
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that's the first base at least
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that's it that's dennis's first base okay
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the wt2 not quite ready for prime time still
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some challenges even with the base concept because i think carrying
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something like this around being like hey
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brother from another country can you just wedge this thing in your
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ear and then maybe we could talk to each other
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doesn't seem since you have to have a phone with you anyway
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like it's any more efficient than just using google translate
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or just use your hands
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ak-4452 digital to analog conversion chip allowing it to process the most
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means no drivers are needed for Windows mac or Linux it's compact and it's
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available on mass drop through the link below for just 80 us dollars
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all right so thanks for watching guys thank you dennis for being a good sport
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about trying out the uh the translator here if you guys dislike this video you
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can hit that button but if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed maybe
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consider checking out uh well it's it's nowhere near prime time ready as you
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guys can see but the concept is pretty cool so it's probably coming at some
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point you can check out a link to it in the video description also down there
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we've got our merch store where you can buy cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally
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join okay
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come on come on okay
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go okay now we're done