On the downside, there’s likely to be many translation errors, so you’ll order fried chicken and get handed a live chicken.
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On the plus side, this could finally undo the Tower of Babel. So it won’t be long before we’re reading foreign-language conversations with locals we encounter when travelling. These smart glasses can also translate your conversation into other languages, including Mandarin. Then you’ll realize neither of you correctly remembers what either of you said. So you can rewind an argument you’ve had with your spouse to see who really said what.
The new glasses don’t just display conversations in real time: they also save written transcripts. But in today’s world of special effects and big theme music, they often boost background sound over the apparently unimportant words the characters are saying. In olden times (10 years ago), they adjusted a show’s sound so we always heard the lead characters speaking above the background sound. But according to audio experts, TV sound itself has become hard to hear. Many of you think the problem is your aging hearing. Then, suddenly an ad comes on at 11 times the show’s volume, deafening you with the words: “DO YOU SUFFER FROM ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION?” Instead, we keep cranking up our TV’s volume, trying to hear what the characters are saying under the music, gunfire, sirens, explosions and drone attacks of typical modern television. Article contentįewer people over 55 use subtitles, but that’s probably because every streaming platform from Amazon to Netflix has its own unique, baffling system for turning them on that older viewers can’t fathom. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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