John Siracusa

Siracusa Says

A fun collection of things John Siracusa has said on podcasts

A Long T-Shirt

It takes a really long t-shirt to describe all the things your AirPods have to do to translate someone.

Podcast: Accidental Tech Podcast
Episode: 656: A Long T-Shirt

Marco
I am not confident enough to be Mr. AirPods translation before it becomes commonplace for people to do this while traveling. So I’m hoping, hey, everyone else go do this, please. So then I can feel more comfortable doing it when I need to.

John
I feel like you’d have to wear a T-shirt or a sign or something that says, this is what’s happening here. My AirPods are trying to translate you, but there’s a time delay and it’s muting your actual talking, which I can’t understand anyway. and then it’s playing back what it thinks you said after some delay. So if it looks like I’m just waiting after you talked and saying nothing, I’m waiting for my phone to like, it would be a long t-shirt. But like…