Some pretty imaginative personal audio gear is already riding in on the wave of improving wireless connectivity, but there's none more ambitious than the so-called Sound program from startup Human Inc ...

Google is turning a long-promised sci‑fi idea into something you can actually use on the subway. Real-time speech translation is now streaming straight from your phone to your headphones, so you can ...

Helen Keller once wrote "blindness separates people from things, deafness separates people from people," and there are many technological projects dedicated to breaking down those interpersonal ...

This week, Google announced "Pixel Buds" — wireless headphones that can translate 40 languages on the fly. It's impressive, but most translators don't worry for their jobs any time soon. Others are ...

Google is turning a once niche party trick into a mainstream feature, letting ordinary headphones behave like real-time translation earbuds. Instead of buying a single-purpose gadget, anyone with a ...