Google’s Pixel Buds get new transcribe mode, attention alerts, and sharing detection

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google is adding a number of new features to its Pixel Buds today. A new transcribe mode is designed to translate long speeches directly into your ears, which is ideal for if you’re listening to a lecture or speech where a single person is speaking in a language you don’t understand. The Pixel Buds have always supported a translation feature, but this transcribe mode is designed for one-way translation instead of conversations back and forth, and it’s a more discrete way to translate using the Buds. It will be available initially for French, German, Italian, and Spanish translation into English. Alongside the new transcribe mode, Google is also adding some more audio options. A new bass boost mode enhances the bass you hear from the... Continue reading…