CUPERTINO: AirPods that may present reside translation are amongst a variety of latest options and merchandise unveiled by Apple.
The AirPods Pro 3, billed as “the ultimate audio experience”, had been launched on Tuesday together with the tech big’s new iPhone 17 line-up and updates to its digital watches.
Live translation on AirPods is obtainable in English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish, whereas Italian, Japanese, Korean and a simplified model of Chinese ought to be on provide by the tip of the 12 months, based on Apple.
The purpose is to make face-to-face translation simpler by this a “hands-free capability (that) is powered by computational audio and Apple Intelligence to help people easily connect”. They have a beginning worth of US$249 or €249 (RM999 regionally).
It can work as a person speaks naturally with AirPods, based on the tech big.
It provides: “To interact with someone who doesn’t have this hands-free capability, there’s an option to use iPhone as a horizontal display, showing the live transcription of what the user is saying in the other person’s preferred language.
“When the other person responds, their speech is translated into the user’s preferred language with AirPods.
“It’s even more useful for longer conversations when both users are wearing their own AirPods with Live Translation enabled from their iPhone.”
John Ternus, Apple’s senior vp of {hardware} engineering, claimed it takes “personal audio to the next level” as its options additionally embrace coronary heart price sensing throughout exercises, prolonged battery life, improved stability and match plus energetic noise cancellation.
Apple additionally unveiled its iPhone 17 Pro, which begins at US$1,099 (RM5,499 regionally) and the iPhone 17 Pro Max beginning at US$1,199 (RM5,999 regionally).
Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vp of worldwide advertising and marketing, mentioned: “iPhone 17 Pro is by far the most powerful iPhone we’ve ever made, with a stunning new design rebuilt from the inside out to maximise performance and deliver an enormous leap in battery life.”
In a transfer aimed on the selfie tradition, the iPhone 17 fashions will function a entrance digicam with extra megapixels for crisper pictures.
The entrance digicam can even have an possibility referred to as “Center Stage” that may make the most of a wider discipline of view and a brand new sensor that may allow customers to take panorama pictures with out having to rotate the iPhone.
The new iPhones are the primary to be launched since President Donald Trump returned to the White House and unleashed a barrage of tariffs.
They are nonetheless anticipated to be made in Apple’s manufacturing hubs in China and India however each Mr Trump and US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick have insisted they need to be made within the US.
Analysts have prompt this demand would take years to drag off and would end in a doubling, or perhaps a tripling, of the iPhone’s present common worth of about US$1,000 (£740/RM4,211).
Apple additionally vowed to search out 1,000,000 individuals with undiagnosed hypertension in only one 12 months with its new watch.
The Apple Watch Series 11 has a notification that alerts customers if they’re suspected of getting persistent hypertension.
Apple has mentioned that it’s submitting for regulatory approval of the brand new expertise.
The instrument makes use of knowledge from the watch’s coronary heart sensor and an algorithm “looks for chronic high blood pressure by analysing how your blood vessels respond to beats of the heart”, Apple’s vp of well being Dr Sumbul Desai mentioned. – dpa/Tribune News Service