With Apple’s launch of the AirPods Pro 3 featuring Live Translation and Google Pixel’s Voice/Live Translate, real-time translation has never been more accessible. These consumer devices are powerful for everyday interactions, but how do they compare to Interprefy AI — a professional-grade solution designed for business-critical multilingual meetings and events?
This article compares AirPods Pro 3, Pixel Translate, and Interprefy AI across accuracy, scale, security, and use cases so you can choose the right tool for your organisation.
Apple’s Live Translation currently supports English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain) with more languages coming soon. It’s hands-free, but Apple notes it’s “more useful when both participants wear AirPods,” otherwise one person reads or hears translations from the iPhone screen. Great for travel, less so in a boardroom where multiple speakers, confidential topics and accuracy matter.
Pixel’s Voice Translate supports live phone call translation between English and multiple languages (French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, and more). It’s practical for personal calls, but again — built for multi-speaker meetings, sensitive negotiations or compliance-critical discussions.
Interprefy powers up to 800 active speakers and 5,000 attendees, with 6,000+ language combinations, Custom Vocabulary training feature (for acronyms, product names, industry terms), and enterprise-grade security. Unlike consumer tools, it’s made for conferences, board meetings, compliance discussions, global town halls and more — with live support and remote technicians included. That’s the difference between “good enough” live translation and business-ready multilingual communication.
| Capability | AirPods Pro 3 Live Translation | Google Pixel Translate | Interprefy AI |
| Best for | Travel, 1:1 chats | Personal calls & casual convos | Professional meetings & events |
| Two-way conversation | Best when both users have AirPods | Yes, in calls & face-to-face | Yes—multi-speaker, multi-channel |
| Meeting scale | 1:1 only | 1:1 only | 800 speakers, 5,000 attendees |
| Languages | 5 at launch (expanding to 9) | ~12 live call pairs | 6,000+ combinations |
| Custom Vocabulary | No | Limited | Yes |
| Security | Consumer | Consumer | ISO 27001, GDPR, 2FA |
| Live support | No | No | Yes |
Source: Apple newsroom, SoundGuys analysis, Google Pixel Live Translate, Interprefy platform
Professional interpreters achieve 95–98% accuracy (consecutive) and 83–87% (simultaneous) according to University of Calgary research. Consumer devices, while improving, still struggle with jargon, legal terms, and nuance.
If you’re negotiating contracts, discussing financials, or training technical teams, “close enough” isn’t enough. That’s where Interprefy — with AI tuned by Custom Vocabulary, professional interpreters, and full professional support — consistently outperforms.
Tourism, restaurants, or directions
Simple one-to-one exchanges
Board & executive meetings (where reputation is on the line)
Legal, regulatory, or compliance discussions
Financial negotiations and M&A
Consumer devices: Built into the cost of your AirPods or Pixel phone — perfect for casual use.
Professional onsite interpretation: Typically $750–$1,250 per interpreter per day.
Interprefy: Blends AI speech translation with remote interpreters for lower overhead, while maintaining accuracy, scale, and reliability — so you control costs without compromising quality.
Choose AirPods Pro 3 or Pixel if you’re traveling, networking casually, or chatting one-on-one.
Choose Interprefy if accuracy, scale, security, and professional stakes matter — and when you need a partner who can support you before, during and after your event.
More on Interprefy solutions here.
Consumer tools like AirPods Pro 3 Live Translation and Google Pixel Translate are convenient for casual interactions. But when the stakes are financial, legal, technical, or reputational, they fall short.
For boardrooms, conferences and event, and global town halls, Interprefy AI is the only platform combining scale, accuracy, security, and enterprise support — giving you the confidence that every word is understood.