{"id":182380,"date":"2025-12-13T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/182380\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:45:06","slug":"google-turns-millions-of-earbuds-into-live-translators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/182380\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Turns Millions of Earbuds Into Live Translators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is turning ordinary headphones into a basic interpreter, and doing so at the operating-system level rather than with a new gadget.<\/p>\n<p>A new beta mode in the Google Translate app lets Android users point their phones at a speaker and hear live translations in more than 70 languages through any wired or wireless headphones.<\/p>\n<p>The live audio feature relies on Gemini, which aims to preserve the speaker\u2019s rhythm and emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>For travel operators, this effectively lets tourists \u201cbring their own\u201d translation device instead of relying on dedicated headsets or waiting for an English-language slot.<\/p>\n<p>A single-language walking tour or gallery talk becomes more accessible to guests willing to stand within range of the guide and use their phone as a microphone.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, those scenarios will still test the limits of the technology. Live interpreting works best in controlled conditions \u2014 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is turning ordinary headphones into a basic interpreter, and doing so at the operating-system level rather than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[365,363,367,111,139,69,145,78139],"class_list":{"0":"post-182380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-the-prompt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}