"Hola! ¿Hablas inglés?" I asked the woman who answered the phone in the Barcelona restaurant.

I was calling in a futile attempt to make a reservation for the CNET team dinner during Mobile World Congress this year. Unfortunately, I don't know Spanish (I learned French and German at school). And as it turned out, she didn't speak English either.

"No!" she said, and brusquely hung up.

What I needed in that moment was the kind of AI call translation feature that's becoming increasingly prevalent on phones -- including those made by Samsung and Google , and, starting next week, Honor.

When Honor unveils its Magic V5 foldable at a launch event on Aug. 28 in London, it will come with what the company is calling "the industry's first on-device large speech model," which will allow live

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