Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.       With two new phones, new Home speakers and more, Google is going after rivals like Apple, Samsung  and Amazon in a big way.   The phones are the new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.     They arrive in a couple of days.    And so do the new earbuds called Pixel Buds, which leverage the power of the phones to instantly translate 40 languages.   Google Technologist Daniel Sieberg…

“Let’s say you were traveling in Italy and encounterd a native Italian speaker.   If you spoke English wearing those Google Pixel Buds,  out of the speaker in your phone, Italian would come out, one of forty languages.   They could then respond in Italian and in your Pixel Buds, you will hear English.”

The delay is only a second or two….and it sounds pretty amazing.  The Pixel Buds will arrive next month.

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