Google Meet has expanded its speech translation feature to support 63 languages on the web, Android, and iOS, allowing participants to communicate across language barriers during video meetings. Powered by Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, the feature automatically detects the language being spoken and translates it into each listener's preferred language.
Announced on October 22, the update adds automatic language detection and individual controls. Previously, participants had to set a single language pair for the entire meeting.
Google Meet Gets Automatic Language Detection
The updated feature can automatically detect spoken languages, even when multiple languages are used in the same meeting, or a speaker switches languages. Participants can enable speech translation individually through the meeting toolbar and identify languages they already understand, which Meet will not translate.
Automatically translated captions sync with the translated audio, giving participants both spoken and written translations.
Google Meet hardware users can listen to translated speech from remote participants in conference rooms. However, speech originating from the conference room hardware will not be translated for other participants.
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Google Meet Speech Translation: Eligible Plans
The feature is available to subscribers of Google Workspace Business Standard and Enterprise Standard, Frontline Plus, Google AI Pro and Ultra, Google AI Pro for Education, AI Expanded Access, and AI Ultra Access.
Participants, including guests from other domains, can use speech translation when someone with an eligible plan organizes a meeting. In direct one-to-one calls, both participants can access the feature if either person has an eligible subscription.
Meeting duration limits depend on the subscription. Eligible base Workspace plans and Google AI Pro allow up to 90 minutes of translation per meeting. AI Expanded Access, AI Ultra Access, and Google AI Ultra subscribers can use it for up to eight hours per meeting.
Privacy Settings and Rollout Timeline
Speech translation isn't available in live streams, meeting recordings, client-side encrypted meetings, dial-in calls, third-party interoperability calls, or sessions using adaptive audio. Availability is also subject to regional and age restrictions.
Google says it does not store voice data or train models on users' voices. Participants can choose whether their speech is translated and change their preferences in Meet settings.
The rollout for Rapid Release domains began on October 22, with feature visibility expected within one to three days. Scheduled Release domains will receive the update from November 2, with rollout taking up to 15 days. Mobile users may need to update the Google Meet app to access the new capabilities.