Google is bringing speech translation to Meet. During I/O on Tuesday, Google revealed a new Gemini-powered feature that can translate what you say into your conversation partner’s preferred language.
Google Meet can translate what you say into other languages
Meet’s AI-generated translation can preserve the sound of your voice, tone, and expression.
Meet’s AI-generated translation can preserve the sound of your voice, tone, and expression.
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Google says the AI-generated translation will preserve the sound of your voice, tone, and expression. The feature is rolling out in beta to users who subscribe to Google’s AI Pro plan, or the newly announced AI Ultra subscription, which costs $249.99 per month.
In a demo shown by Google, an English speaker joins a call with a colleague who speaks Spanish. Once their colleague turns on Gemini’s speech translation, Meet begins dubbing over what they’re saying with an AI-generated English translation that includes all their vocal inflections — and vice versa.
Microsoft Teams similarly launched an AI translation feature in a preview earlier this year.
For now, Meet can only translate between English and Spanish, but Google plans on adding support for Italian, German, and Portuguese in the “coming weeks.”
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