hey guys EBPMAN here and Happy New Year this is the first review of the year and
I wanted to share with you the pilot it's a translating earpiece by Waverly
Labs let's go and check it out now over the last couple years people have been
really trying to solve translating speech from one language to the other we
saw that last year with Google Translate we also saw that with their earbuds that
they have that links that Google Translate technology to conversations so
that you can hear what the person is speaking to you in one language in your
native language and with the combination of the phone you can respond to that
person the problem is is that they're really not well implemented and it's not
as natural as you would like also braggy - in the - pro launched a partnership
with itranslate to kind of solve the same problem so you have lots of
technologies out there that are trying to solve
translation going from one language to the other so the question is that the
pilot get it right that they improve that experience make it more natural so
that you can have a conversation with someone in one language and respond to
them in another let's go ahead and check that out now this earpiece does feature
something that the other providers that I'd mentioned have not solved and that
is group multi language conversations so that means that you can have a
conversation with more than one person and have the translation take place you
all you do have a battery life of four hours it does have two mics per earbud
and that's to help with the translation that needs to take place it does support
high-quality music streaming so it not only will to do translating but it's
also could be used just for listening to music I want to talk about the overall
experience and what the quality of that was and more importantly you know what
we use our air buds mostly for is for taking phone calls so you do have phone
call capabilities as well as noise cancellation capabilities as you're
having those conversations so let's do an unboxing see what the product looks
like and then we'll talk about how these features actually work in the real world
now inside the box are going to find your earpieces with a docking station a
carrying case that also has a battery to charge your earpieces a microUSB
charging cable some use guide information and client
satisfaction information with two additional earpieces taking you from
small to medium to large ear gels so now let's go ahead and take a closer look at
the earpieces with the travel case which is a charger as well so you're gonna get
four full charges three to four full charges out of this so I'm gonna push
this button here you can see where my battery level is it's gonna take
anywhere from an hour an hour and a half all the way up to possibly even two
hours to charge them fully depending on your usage so it's really important that
you think about carrying these with you wherever you go the case that is so I
wouldn't take these your pieces and just put them in your pocket and go I would
take the travel case with you with the earpieces inside of it that way they're
always fully charged you're gonna get three two full charges on this so that's
three to four and the battery life is close to four hours now it's gonna be
mixed based on your usage depending on if you're listening to audio if you're
I'm doing translation or if you're taking phone calls but having the four
hour battery life and then also having this charging case is a great I would
say experience when it comes to overall usability from a battery life
perspective now that your pieces themselves have a single button and this
single button is going to be used for powering up the earpiece going into
pairing mode as well as answering and skipping forward when it comes to calls
the earpieces do not turn on when you take them off or out of the cradle which
is nice but I would not recommend as I said
earlier just taking it your pieces by themselves without the charging base now
for those of you who are interested in how deep this piece here goes into your
ear it goes pretty far in and it provides I would say not much passive
noise isolation because of this ear gel if you go with one of the larger ones
that we showed right here like one of these you're gonna get more passive
noise isolation I do get a lot of feedback that some of you are concerned
about these getting stuck in your ear and I haven't had that experience yet
with these but it does go pretty far deep and these smaller ones don't
provide a lot of noise isolation so they're comfortable to wear but again
you'll have to be comfortable with having something like this going in your
ear so now let's talk about audio from an
audio I typically look at the any kind of audio headphone or earpiece like this
and I look at how do they perform from a base from the mids and a high and I gave
my experience based on that and you'll hear me say it's either bass heavy or
not mid heavy or not or favors high these favored mid to high bass is
present but not that much at all and it's it's so low that I would say it's
really a mid and a high type of earpiece so if you're looking for bass heavy
music these are not the earbuds for you from a music perspective now from a
loudness let's talk about loudness these are loud they are so loud that they can
be painfully loud and because of the ear piece that you wear depending if you
have the larger one or the smaller one in there could be leakage so you'll
someone next to you could hear what you're listening to the music that
you're listening to depending on the gel that you're using and how firm or I
would say how much of a seal you have but they can't get very loud to the
point where it actually hurts so that's great that they get really loud because
I do review ear buds or ear pieces like this that really don't have a lot of
volume range and these definitely have it but it lacks the bass all right so
good volume poor bass mids and highs is what you're gonna get all these so now
let's talk about comfort stress free not much fatigue wearing them can for a long
period of time no real issues but that's gonna vary from person to person they're
lightweight so that helps with the fatigue they do have an IP X rating
which means that you should be able to wear them in the gym I have had no
problems running with them had no problems I'm doing some cardio with them
and also when I was doing some bench presses and weights had no problems
except once or twice depending on the kind of seal I had one of them would
just fall out of my ear what I'm just saying on the bench you know doing my
bench presses so overall experience has been great and also when it comes to the
Bluetooth range had no problems where my phone was so the connection didn't break
really easily and I was able to walk away from my
phone if I had it in let's say my towel or my gym bag as I was working out so
no problems there either so good connectivity good fit and feel and again
you could use them for working out they are not waterproof to the point where I
would take them into the shower or go swimming with them so now let's talk
about audio translation and how it works first of all in order for the auto
translation to work you'd have to give the person who you are wanting to speak
to in their language an earpiece and you could define which one it's going to be
it's either going to be the left one or the right one so you've given the
earpiece you would put that earpiece into pairing mode and then they would
basically download the pilot application so that they could have this pair to
their phone plus the pilot application you having the the starter of the
conversation which you start conversation you would determine if you
have one person or multiple people that you can have a conversation with and
then what you would do is you would determine what the language also is for
that person so in this case what I'm going to do is my guest name I'm just
gonna put test so you can see how that works and then I'm gonna choose the
language now I speak Spanish fluently don't have any other language skills so
I'm just gonna choose that Spanish United States and then I'm going to hit
continue now the person who you're having the
conversation with is going to have to download and install the pilot app they
install it on their phone and they pair you put this in pairing mode to they
pair to their phone and then what they do is they'll go ahead and join the
conversation so I'm gonna hit continue you notice that you have this QR code
I'm gonna say join the conversation and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna highlight
that QR code so the conversation will start so now there's kind of there's
been a sync process that's taking place so I have my language which is English
their language which is Spanish right so what we're going to do is we're going to
go ahead and start the conversation and see how it works now as soon as you
start the conversation both phones are going to be in listening mode so they're
gonna it's gonna be listening for the conversation of this person who you're
speaking to and then the translation I'm also going to take place so I've muted
both of them just so we can see how it works so I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
unmute my phone and then speak in English and then you'll see on this
phone the translation in Spanish
hello how are you now you'll notice over here okay you'll notice over here that
we now have hola como estas I said hello how are you that's an
accurate translation and what I heard was in the earpiece that I'm wearing the
Spanish translation of what I just said in English right and I have it muted
right now let's try responding in Spanish and see how it translates to
English now estoy bien gracias como estas - so I just muted it just so I can
have this this just review and you'll notice that it says I'm fine thanks how
are you and that's actually an accurate translation - so pretty surprising how
well it does a translation and again what I spoke in Spanish my earpiece the
right ear piece that I have in my ear actually spoke to me back in the English
language so speaking in Spanish translated pretty quickly into English
and then vice versa is doing pretty well so let's go ahead and try another phrase
or try another conversation point to see how it translates we'll go ahead and try
it in Spanish actually do it in English can you direct me to the nearest bar now
notice over here it says I asked it can you direct me to the nearest bar over
here says what is it he heated me out of bottom a sec Donal that's accurate now
there is a little Spanglish going on here because you see bar is both in
English on both sides but that's pretty common when you're speaking a second
language where some of the terms or the words are remain the same so pretty
accurate again let's try it one more time el bar esta Quatro Quatro Dora's on
esquina
all right so go ahead and mute that so I basically told it that it's four
blocks away to the to the from the corner good translation as well so how
does this translation experience compared to Google Translate with the
earbuds it works pretty well I've tried this in English I've also tried this in
some of the supported languages which I'll show you again so you can see the
full list of languages and as I've tried this um certain with friends that speak
those other language they've been actually very surprised on how accurate
it has been so now if you're curious to the languages that are supported you'll
notice that there's a full list of language you have Arabic Chinese English
French German Hindi Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish Greek
Turkish and polish I'm sure other languages will be available rather
shortly and if you notice that the you have this little caret sign here or
arrow that's leading into you specific country or regional dialects so as we
chose Spanish you notice that I had several type of Spanish I had Argentina
Bolivia Chile etc so I was able to choose a specific Spanish that would
suit the style of Spanish that I was going to be speaking so again gives you
a lot of flexibility when it comes to that audio translation so now the
question is how useful is it and is it as natural as it would be if you were
translating it yourself so now let's talk about practicality I don't like the
fact that I have to install an app on the phone or the person who I want to
have a conversation with in that second language now when I saw the video it
seemed to lend you to believe that everything was happening on the host
phone that there was no need to have two apps just one the second piece having to
pair the the actual earbud that you're giving the person to the phone I think
it's also a little intrusive and it didn't seem that that wasn't required so
downloading an app and then pairing your earbud to someone else's phone are two
things I would say puts two strikes against the product the third thing
hygiene I don't know how many people would be comfortable taking someone's
ear but who was in their ear and putting it in their ear my friends at least as
they were looking at they were like whoa dude you know do you have your wax on
this where has this they're just joking but in reality you
have to ask yourself how many people would be comfortable with taking someone
else's here but I'm putting it in their ear I don't know many that would so that
from a practicality perspective kind of throws this off a little bit so those
are some of my highlights when it comes to usability I find that it worked
better in my experience than Google the Google Translate implementation with the
Google buds but I'm concerned about the app the pairing and then actually giving
someone an earpiece that they may not want to wear so this concludes my review
and initial impressions of the Waverley labs pilot earpiece translators
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