WIRED Quite effective for one-on-one communication, provided everyone is willing to go slow. Reasonably intuitive controls. TIRED Awkward product design. Struggles with translating mass media and commercial programming. Battery is problematic.
The Interpreter arrives as a pair of over-the-ear headphones, one for your right ear and one for your friend’s. You download the Ambassador mobile app—where all the translation work gets done—and pair both headphones to your phone using Bluetooth.
The good news is that both Converse and Lecture work surprisingly well. While the Ambassador app can be a little awkward to use—especially since you have to manually reconnect to the headphones every time you turn them off—it’s intuitive enough to get things going without a lot of hand-holding. It’s not an app to use if you’re in a hurry, as you have to manually select the languages to listen for and translate to, which can take a bit of time.
I had high hopes that with Listen mode I’d be able to watch foreign-language movies in their native tongue, but this didn't pan out. While I was able to get a reasonable translation of things like, the speech on mainstream programming and movies was always much too rapid-fire for Ambassador to keep up with. Most of the time the system just didn’t catch any dialog at all, or if it did, it was only a random word here or there.
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