Enence Translator really 1.5 seconds?

Mine is usually closer to 3 seconds too.

I used one for a week in Japan and it was nowhere near 1.5 seconds for me either. Japanese to English usually took a couple seconds, sometimes a bit more if I spoke a full sentence. I still found it handy, just not as instant as the box makes it sound.

I never really expected it to hit 1.5 seconds anyway, that number just seems like a best case thing. For me the bigger thing is that I don’t mind a short pause as long as the translation comes out right. I’d rather wait an extra second than get a fast but wrong sentence back. That’s just my preference though.

Mine lags way more on longer sentences.

I always assumed the 1.5 seconds thing was mostly about the pause after you stop talking, not the whole exchange. Like the device starts spitting out the translation fast once it actually hears a complete sentence. That part I can sort of believe.

What got me was trying to use it with my cousin who talks nonstop. He doesn’t pause for breath. The thing just sat there listening while he rambled for like twenty seconds, and then it gave me a translation that was basically a summary. Which to be fair was kind of impressive, but it’s a completely different thing from fast back and forth.

The practical detail that surprised me is how much battery it chews through when it’s working hard on long stretches like that. I borrowed one for a weekend trip and it was dead by mid afternoon the second day, and I wasn’t even using it constantly. Short greetings and ordering food, fine. But if you’re leaning on it for actual conversations with someone chatty, you’re going to be hunting for a charger.

So I don’t really know what to make of the 1.5 number. For a quick “where’s the train station” type thing it feels about right. For anything with real back and forth it just doesn’t apply, and honestly I stopped paying attention to the seconds after a while.

Probably depends what you count. Mine reacts fast once I stop talking but the whole back and forth still feels slow in person. I got it for quick stuff like asking directions, not real conversations.