{"id":423459,"date":"2026-04-29T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423459\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:24:10","slug":"google-translate-now-lets-you-practice-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423459\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate now lets you practice pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Translate is now 20 years old, and to celebrate, the company has added a new feature that lets users practice their pronunciation and enunciation of words and phrases in different languages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you translate a word, sentence or phrase, you can navigate into the \u201cPractice\u201d menu to find a \u201cPronounce\u201d button, which shows you phonetics that you can say out loud to practice speaking the translated text. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The app then scores your pronunciation and gives you feedback, like \u201cSome sounds were a little unclear.\u201d You can listen to the app\u2019s pronunciation of the text, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India, and currently supports English, Spanish, and Hindi.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate and\u2026 the launch of a top-requested feature! \ud83c\udf82<\/p>\n<p>One of the toughest things about speaking a new language is getting the nuances of pronunciation just right.  Now, you can get instant feedback with &#8220;pronunciation practice,\u201d which uses AI\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DdMfiMB9dz\">pic.twitter.com\/DdMfiMB9dz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Fox (@thefox) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thefox\/status\/2049158937027702876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This feature resembles Duolingo in how it lets you practice speaking words and sentences. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, the company rolled out its <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/26\/google-translates-real-time-headphone-translations-feature-expands-to-ios-and-more-countries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live headphone translation feature to iOS<\/a>, and expanded its availability on Android devices to Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh, and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco, CA<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 13-15, 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google Translate is now 20 years old, and to celebrate, the company has added a new feature that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1711,31409,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-423459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-google","tag-google-translate","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}