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Google Meet Launches Real-Time Translation Across 63 Languages

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In Short: Google Meet has launched a new feature that allows real-time translation across 63 languages, powered by Gemini 3.5 Live Translate.

Google Meet has launched a new feature that allows real-time translation across 63 languages, powered by Gemini 3.5 Live Translate. The feature is designed to work seamlessly even when multiple languages are spoken in a meeting, according to Android Authority.

The real-time translation feature is available for users with Google AI Pro and Ultra plans, Google Workspace users with AI Expanded Access and AI Ultra Access, and organization users through Business Standard/Plus, Enterprise Standard/Plus, and Frontline Plus plans. Schools can also access the feature through Google AI Pro for Education.

Google claims that the translation takes place in 'near real-time,' and the feature can be used throughout meetings that last up to eight hours for those with eligible plans. The feature automatically detects the language being spoken and translates it both audibly and in captions, according to Thurrott.com.

Users can turn on speech translation for themselves in their preferred language at any point in a meeting using a dedicated translation control in the meeting toolbar, as revealed in a new Workspace blog entry. This feature is designed to enhance communication for multilingual teams, making it easier for everyone to understand each other in real-time.

The real-time speech translation feature is also available in the Google Translate mobile app, where it can be used with or without headphones, providing faster and more accurate translations. The model automatically detects more than 70 languages and generates smooth, natural-sounding translated speech that preserves the speaker's intonation, pacing, and pitch.

Google's new feature is particularly useful for multilingual teams and individuals who need to communicate across different languages. It allows for more inclusive and effective communication in meetings, as noted by Techish Kenya.

While the feature is rolling out to iOS and Android users, access is expanding gradually, with consumer access, meeting-room testing, and developer experimentation moving on different schedules, according to WinBuzzer.

The launch of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate represents a significant step forward in voice translation technology, moving it closer to consumer conversations, business meetings, and developer-built services. This technology could have far-reaching implications for global communication and collaboration.

In a separate development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Russian President Vladimir Putin with a Russian translation of the Thirukkural, an ancient Tamil text, during a bilateral meeting in New Delhi ahead of the BRICS Summit. The gift was part of the Ancient Tamil Classics in Translation Series and aims to carry the timeless wisdom of Thiruvalluvar across languages and borders.

What this adds

Background

What's confirmed

• Sharing a picture and a short video of the meeting on X, Modi said he presented Putin with the Russian edition of the celebrated work to carry the timeless wisdom of Thiruvalluvar across languages and borders.
• The copy of Thirukkural presented to Putin bears an image of Thiruvalluvar on its cover and is part of the Ancient Tamil Classics in Translation Series — Text, Transliteration and Translation.

What's still developing

• Availability gets started today, with access expanding across early November.
• Access technically extends beyond only those specific customers, since anyone can use real-time speech translation in a group meeting hosted by an eligible Google user, or in a one-on-one call if at least one person in it has an eligible plan.
• “The model automatically detects 70+ languages and generates smooth, natural-sounding translated speech that preserves the speakers’ intonation, pacing and pitch. Unlike turn by turn systems that wait for the speaker to finish speaking before responding, 3.5 Live Translate generates speech continuously, balancing the trade-off between waiting for context to improve quality and translating immediately to stay in sync with the speaker,” Google said today.
• "Unlike translated captions, which only display text, speech translation preserves the flow of conversation by creating an audio translation dubbed over the original speech that mimics the speaker’s tone and speaking cadence," Google's blog on the feature revealed.
• Exclusive Android “Listening Mode”: Google is introducing a hyper-private translation workflow for Android users.
• “Nectar sun” does not tame Jibanananda into something an English reader can swallow without noticing.
• The pope spoke in four different languages – English, French, Portuguese and Spanish – depending on the official languages of the countries he visited.
• Renowned Russian author Leo Tolstoy, in a letter to Tarak Nath Das in 1908, had quoted six couplets from a German translation of the Thirukkural, according to the book Thirukkural Translations In World Languages.
• Joy and laughter echoed through the Paul VI Hall as more than 600 children gathered for a special encounter with Pope Leo XIV during the Vatican’s “Estate Ragazzi” Summer Camp.
• The work, comprising 1,330 couplets on virtue, morality, governance, and love, is regarded as one of the cornerstones of Tamil literature and has been translated into multiple languages worldwide.

Sources

• Android Authoritylink
• Techish Kenyalink
• Thurrott.comlink
• UC Todaylink
• WinBuzzerlink
• nokiapoweruser.comlink
• The Indian Expresslink
• Laciviltacattolicalink
• Etvbharatlink
• Earthnewslink
• 10Netlink
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• Pragativadilink
• WarpBeat — background on Russia's Rassvet Satellite Network Could Enable Real-Time Strikes on Ukraine link
• Wikipedia — background on Google Meet link