{"id":341864,"date":"2025-12-13T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:11:08","slug":"google-brings-gemini-live-translation-to-any-headphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341864\/","title":{"rendered":"Google brings Gemini live translation to any headphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a> just made whatever pair of headphones you own a bit more useful.<\/p>\n

As part of a broader expansion of Google Translate, the company is rolling out a beta for live language translation using headphones, Google announced in a blog post<\/a>. Google says the feature supports more than 70 languages and, most importantly, works with “any pair of headphones,” presumably provided that they have a microphone on them in some capacity. <\/p>\n

“We\u2019re bringing Gemini\u2019s most powerful translation capabilities to Google Translate for text, launching a beta experience for live speech-to-speech translations with headphones, and adding new languages to the app for practice and skill building,” the blog post reads.<\/p>\n

And according to Google VP of product and search Rose Yao, Gemini doesn’t just translate each word you hear; it provides meaningful translation to capture the meaning and intent of the speaker.<\/p>\n

\n Mashable Light Speed\n <\/p>\n

“Say you\u2019re trying to translate an English idiom like ‘stealing my thunder.’ Now, it’s easier than ever to get a more natural, accurate translation, instead of a literal word-for-word translation. Gemini parses the context to give you a helpful translation that captures what the idiom really means,” Yao wrote in a blog post.<\/p>\n

You can try the new live translation feature by opening the Google Translate mobile app with your headphones paired and tapping the “Live translate” button.<\/p>\n

Apple got a lot of press when it introduced live translation with AirPods<\/a> at the September iPhone event, and previously, this Google Translate feature was only available for users with Pixel Buds, the company’s wireless earbuds<\/a>. Now that Android users can use live translation on their preferred headphones or buds, Google has taken a big step closer to universal live translation.<\/p>\n

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But, as I said, this is a beta, so it’s not fully cooked yet. As such, it’s only available in the U.S., Mexico, and India right now, and crucially, only Android<\/a> users have access at the moment. Google says the feature will come to iOS in 2026, but for now, iPhone users are stuck with Apple’s more limited live translation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Large-language models like ChatGPT and Gemini often excel at language translation, and live translation is one of the more promising use cases for the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google just made whatever pair of headphones you own a bit more useful. As part of a broader…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-341864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}