TL; DR
- Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings real-time speech translation across 70-plus languages globally.
- A new Android listening mode delivers translated audio directly through your phone’s earpiece.
- Google Meet now supports 70-plus languages and over two thousand language pair combinations.
We’re still breaking down Apple’s announcements from WWDC 2026, finding all the lesser-known features in iPadOS 27 and watchOS 27, along with reviewing the iOS 27’s first developer beta, and here comes Google, with a new announcement about Gemini.
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a real-time speech-to-speech translation tool that works as you speak (in real-time), not after you finish a sentence. For a country with 22 official languages, this is the kind of tool that could genuinely change how people communicate with each other.
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What’s New In Gemini 3.5 Live Translate?
The system can detect over 70 languages without any manual configuration required from you. Apart from simply translating one language to another in real time, it also preserves the speaker’s tone, pacing, and pitch. Google also claims that it maintains low latency with no awkward pauses between the original sentence and the translated one.
Google processes over a trillion words per month across its translation products, and this update is designed to make those interactions sound natural and more human-like. But where can you access the feature and what can you actually do with it?
You can use the new Gemini Live Translate tool in the Google Translate app on Android and iOS, in two ways. First, you can use it with a pair of headphones. Second, you can use it with a new Android listening mode that relays the translated audio through the phone’s earpiece; you can hold it to your ear as if you’re on a call and hear the output.
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Google Meet also gets the update, expanding real-time translation support from five languages to over 70 languages. Along with this, the number of supported language combinations in a single meeting goes up from English-only pairings to more than two thousand combinations, making cross-country communication easier than ever before.
All audio output includes SynthID watermarking, an imperceptible watermark, if you will, confirming that the content is AI-generated.
The Google Translate app update is rolling out globally on Android and iOS now. Google Meet integration is in private preview for Workspace enterprise customers. Even so, a broader rollout is planned later this year.
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