Google has announced that “Live Translate,” the company's AI-powered Google Translate feature that allows users to hear real-time translations in their headphones, is further expanding to Apple's iOS as well as to more countries. The Live translate feature helps in instantly understanding and connecting with the world right through any pair of headphones in more than 70 languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
After the expansion, the feature has now been made available on iOS and Android in the US, India, Germany, Mexico, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, the UK, Japan, Bangladesh and Thailand. Prior to this, it was only available for the Android users in the US, India and Mexico.
Among the other languages supported include Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Dari, Finnish, Filipino, French, Canadian French, Galician, Hungarian, Croatian, Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, Javanese, Georgian, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Malay, Burmese, Nepali, Norwegian, Dutch, Punjabi Arabic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, and Zulu.
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In a blog post, Sasha Kapur, Product Manager at Google Translate, highlighted that this feature, leveraging Google's Gemini AI, turns any pair of headphones into a real-time, one-way translation device. While doing so, it keeps each the speaker's tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, making it easier to follow the conversation and understand who's saying what.
"Live translate is a game-changer for getting recommendations, listening to train announcements and connecting with fellow travelers. Because it preserves the original speaker's tone and cadence, I'm not just getting the exact words, but also the vibe of the city and the people who make it special," Kapur said.
The tech giant suggested that users can utilise this feature to do various things, such as following dinnertime conversations with relatives, who speak another language, or to understand train announcements when travelling in a different country.
"Dinners with my aunts and uncles chatting in Punjabi used to feel a bit like watching a movie without the subtitles. With Live translate, I can keep up with the conversation and jokes in real-time," Kapur added.
Notably, Google introduced Live translate with headphones last year in beta. At that time, the company promised to “preserve the tone, emphasis and cadence of each speaker to create more natural translations and make it easier to follow along with who said what”.
In order to try it out, users can open the Google Translate app, tap Live translate and then select Listening.
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