- Google Meet just added Gemini-powered speech translation across 63 languages.
- The feature automatically detects spoken languages and translates them in audio and captions for individual participants.
- Real-time translation starts rolling out to some eligible users today.
Meetings are meant to facilitate communication, but anyone who’s been in one that could have been an email, as the saying goes, knows that’s not always the case. That’s even more true for teams with multilingual members. Now Google Meet has a solution with Gemini-powered speech translation for 63 languages on web and mobile devices.
In a new Workspace blog entry, Google shares that Meet users will be able to 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. Google Meet will then automatically detect what language is being spoken and translate it for the user, both audibly and in captions. Google claims this translation takes place in “near real-time.”