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This is my first experience with an in-ear translator and the experience has been positive so far. I have used it to converse with coworkers from Mexico, Russia, France (oh yeah, really necessary!) and India. This gizmo can even recognize the lovely Indian accent and speak back to you in that accent!To use the simultaneous translation mode — of course, even a UN top translator cannot do pure simultaneous translation due to language semantic and grammatical differences not to mention the difficulties with idioms — you give one of the earbuds to the other party and wear the other one yourself. Your iPhone is not needed for picking up the speech but acts as the neural brain for the translation work. This may also explain why they decided not to include regular earphone functions as, alas, one of your buds will probably spend more time in other people’s ears, and not everyone cleans their ears regularly like you do. This mode is my favorite, but you need to be patient with the slight delays in translation; the speed seems to spend mostly on the speed of your Internet connection. I haven’t tried the offline mode yet even though I bought that version.The listening mode is good for watching foreign movies. It uses your iPhone’s mic to pick up the sound and then extract speech and translate. Depending on the audio quality of your TV or amplifier, the results can be inconsistent, but it works most of the time for me (I play videos mostly on my 16 inch MacBook Pro with its awesome speakers). It’s lots of fun.A mode called touch mode works like a pair of walkie talkies: you give one bud to the other person, then each of you taps the bud (like on the original AirPod) before speaking. You don’t hold the bud’s side when you speak, just tap and speak. This mode is great when you are in a noisy environment so the system knows when and who’s talking.There’s one speaker mode where you wear the bud(s) while the other person uses your iPhone running the TimeKettle app. This saves you from sharing your bud with someone who doesn’t wash often…As long as you have a strong Internet connection or have downloaded the offline content, and have a little patience, this gizmo works pretty well. It even works in noisy restaurants and bars for me. And yes, I set my end to Indian English. That alone is worth the price!

I thought these were gonna be good for the price. I thought they would stick out above the rest very disappointed they don’t translate with the arm. I was using the Philippine translation and it’s not even close. It’s like it doesn’t know so it just picks random things to say I tried to in a conversation and they had no idea what I was saying because what was being translated to them didn’t make sense and vice versa. I tried just doing a one-way conversation and then I would ask what the person said and it was like this thing just made up words very disappointed. I wish I could return them.

Son buenos pero dependiendo para lo que necesites debes saber cuál será el modo en el que debes de usarlos, yo recomiendo además un micrófono pequeño que puedas pegar a tu ropa para que se pueda escuchar mejor y así haya una traducción más exacta.

Bought this for English-Portuguese. Only does this ONLINE which is useless in areas with no cell service. These details are buried in the description and should be at the TOP. Boooo

I got these translator earbuds to help with a business meeting (Chinese <-> English). I got 2 pairs so 4 of us could use them.These are the good parts:1. Connection was easy to do. Got the app and click on the “connect” button in the app (don’t connect them via the phone’s Bluetooth menu). They connected easily and quickly.2. Battery life was very good. We used them in an all-day meeting of 6 hours. We took a lunch break halfway (3 hours) and left them recharging, but they didn’t die before, so they did a solid 3 hours without a hiccup.3. They are comfortable to wear; they sit well in the ear and don’t fall out.4. Translation had good accuracy. I would say 85% accurate, enough to have a fluent conversation.5. It doesn’t translate the second you start speaking; it takes 3 to 5 seconds to start translating. This is actually good as grammar construction between the two languages is so different that it needs to understand the sentence before it can translate it correctly.6. We tried Chinese <-> Spanish (I speak Spanish), and it worked as well as Chinese <-> English.7. The earbuds can be configured individually for 2 languages you can select how many of each (e.g. 1 English 3 Chinese, 2 English 2 Chinese, 3 English 1 Chinese), it seems you can connect up to 3 pairs so a total of 6 people.8. The conversations get transcript recorded so you can review them later or create a summary of the conversation. This was very useful for my meeting. You can export them to the clipboard or email them, which is super helpful.9. If you speak clearly, at a somewhat constant rate, and enunciate your words, it captures 95% accurately what you are saying.The not-so-good parts:1. They don’t work well in noisy environments (we initially tried them at the airport). It was not picking up my voice consistently.2. The “touch mode,” where you touch the earbud to start speaking, has only 1 beep sound. If you touch it again, you close the microphone. So if you touch it twice, it opens and closes the microphone using the same beep sound. Sometimes we tried talking, and it was not listening to our voice, so we had to touch it again, trying to guess if the microphone was open or closed. If the vendor could update this so it does a 2-tone beep (bup-bip / bip-bup) or a single bip to open/two-bips to close, to distinguish between open/close microphone, it would solve this issue completely. This was definitely a point of frustration during the meeting occasionally.3. Accents will have an impact. The Chinese gentlemen were from two different regions. For one of them, the microphone would capture 90% of the message accurately; for the other one, it would go down to 60%/70%, so it was a little harder to understand what he was trying to say. But even with that, it was good enough to understand what we were talking about.I didn’t try the offline translation that some people reported as not working. I will try that later and update my review then.Bottom line, these are good solid translation earbuds, will definitely be keeping them and using them with my international coworkers. It's amazing what technology is now capable off, kudos to the Timekettle team.