I wish I had had these futuristic headphones in their ears 7 years ago – they would have changed my life

Uschi dreams with the Acer Ai Transbuds back to Paris presented at the Computex 2025, where her once called her – but Uschi did not understand a word. (Image source: Acer)

The Computex 2025 is under the motto AI Next. I don’t know how you are, but the buzzword really wants me To no longer hit the stool.

Not even in headphones. However, the Acer Ai Transbuds offer a synchronous translation in 15 languages.

And then I had to think of a Paris trip in summer seven years ago. If I had only these translation headphones back then …

An evening in Paris with a language barrier

It was a warm summer evening in Paris. My brother and I wanted to meet people, but secretly we felt that we were simply not cool enough for the scene cafes in Le Marais.

Then suddenly a young man spoke to us on the street: Deutsche? The Baden-Württemberger had moved to Paris at 18, without knowledge of French, without a job and now at home in the metropolis for several years.

Unfortunately, Uschi spontaneously had no pictures of her parisage vacation ready, but Linh, who was in Paris for Gamestar Tech in April 2025 at the Nintendo event in the Grand Palais and took dozens of photos-not only from the Switch 2.

However, my attentive was more of his companion: a young, French Leonardo Dicaprio blend, who could not find an apartment in the overpriced capital, and therefore slept in parked trains at the main train station at night.

While my brother talked to the German, it went on me and the object of my desire to the banks of the nearby Saint-Martin Canal.

The problem: I hardly spoke French, he no German.

Die Acer AI TransBuds

Acer is more likely to be known for its laptops and monitors. At the largest hardware fair in Asia, its subsidiary Acer Gadget says that the fight, established with a smart ring such as Samsung and oura.

But the Acer Ai Transbuds primarily arouse my interest. At first glance, they look like normal sports headphones:

The Acer Transbuds simply come and weigh about 61 grams. (Image source: Acer)

The AI ​​actually makes the difference in them. Because they are primarily not for music and podcasts, but for real -time translation, according to Gadget360:

• In 15 languages: Chinese, English, Filipino, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese.
• In two directionsif a conversation partner wears a headphone and speaks Russian, the other can wear the other headphones at the same time and speak Spanish.
• With very low latency For a natural speech flow.
• With Bluetooth 5.4 connection for Live transcription For example on a smartphone or tablet.

According to Tom’s Guide, this works quite smoothly, but so far neither a price nor a publication date is known.

I would come up with some opportunities in which such headphones would really help me and others.

The evening in Paris …

The evening in Paris in question with the Acer Ai Transbuds

Together the Frenchman and I sit down on the banks of the channel. The moon glitters on the water. He stammered a few words in French – in the hope that I would at least understand him a little.

SssscccchhhhhI smoke and grab my coat pocket. Without a word, I put a headphone in the ear and interpret him to do the same with the other.

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What is… Stempling is. Exactly that, Wispert the French computer voice in his ear. And then we talk about all sorts of deep. I think I have found my soul mate and stay a few more days longer.

And then we have our first argument In a small café in Montmatre. And I scream him in German how much these arrogant Paris nerves me – nobody else understands me – and how everyone has to go over the traffic lights at red. And he calls me German Plouc intolerant And the waiter no longer only serves us with contempt, but pure confusion in the face of this strange spectacle.

Perhaps Uschi with her Frenchman was also at the »Love Locks«. (Image source: Duy Linh Dinh/Gamestar Tech)

We no longer take the transbuds out of our ears, even the dirty talk is translated reliably and without a large latency semantically. And then we move in and for me every bread is now starting with a wordless handing over a headphone.

And of course our children grow up bilingual. But without us having to agree on a language, because the transbuds have now become an integral part of our lives. Of course, only the children don’t get any, they should learn languages.

And our circle of friends grows and grows, is becoming more and more international. There are no longer any language barriers, and every celebration is a gathering of cultures in a wild cacophony from the languages ​​of all countries, but we all get along.

How the evening actually went without the Acer Ai Transbuds

My couple of chunks French: Hello, how are you, where is the Eiffel Tower? Not even enough for small talk, because he didn’t speak a single word English.

At some point it got late, we went back to my brother and the German. To say goodbye, the Frenchman turned to my brother, who was a little better French than me and pointed to me:

Your sister is …, (Your sister is …)stretched up both thumbs up and nodded with a stupid grin, as if you praised the operation in the restaurant from a distance for the excellent meat roast. I could have sinked into the ground.

Yes, I would have had the Acer Ai Transbuds back then, my life could have been so different. But maybe it is better.