Apple's Live Translation isn't exclusive to AirPods Pro 3 – it's coming to some older earbuds too

Apple just announced AirPods Pro 3 (along with lots of other stuff – read everything Apple announced at its iPhone 17 event here), and as part of the announcement it showed off a new Live Translation feature.

This takes the speech of someone speaking to you in another language and converts it to your own language in your ears via your AirPods. You can speak back, and your iPhone will show what you're saying in their language. If two people are both using AirPods, you can just talk and have the whole conversation translated.

Here's Apple's demo of Live Translation:

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