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Get a look at the real-time translation the new AirPods Pro 3 bring to your ears, which you can prompt through a gesture. Powered by Apple Intelligence, it uses noise cancellation to reduce the volume of the speaker to elevate the provided translation to the user.
Apple debuted its next-generation AirPods Pro 3 today at its annual fall hardware event, and our first impressions here at PCMag are pretty positive. Apple maintains the Pro 2 earbuds' $249 price tag,
Perhaps the biggest upgrade on the AirPods Pro 3 will be the new heart rate sensor. Apple is using its smallest heart rate sensor on the AirPods Pro 3, which is a custom photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor that “shines invisible infrared light pulsed at 256 times per second to measure light absorption in blood flow.”
The AirPods Pro 3 also adds Live Translation, powered by Apple Intelligence. This feature enables the AirPods Pro 3 to listen to audio and translate it into different languages, offering realtime audio translations as well as displaying them on a phone.
In a live keynote event Tuesday, tech giant Apple debuted its new iPhone Air, its thinnest model yet, along with the iPhone 17 and new Apple Watch and AirPods versions.