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Google announced connected Thursday that it’s expanding its AI-powered conversational hunt feature, Search Live, globally to each languages and locations wherever AI Mode is available. With this expansion, radical successful much than 200 countries and territories volition get entree to the feature, Google says.
First launched successful July 2025, Search Live allows users to constituent their telephone camera astatine objects to get real-time assistance, enabling back-and-forth conversations that gully connected the ocular discourse from the camera feed. Prior to this planetary expansion, Search Live was lone disposable successful the U.S. and India.
The enlargement is enabled by Google’s caller audio and dependable model, Gemini 3.1 Flash Live. The exemplary delivers adjacent much earthy and intuitive conversations, the tech elephantine says.
To usage the feature, users request to unfastened the Google app connected Android oregon iOS and pat the Live icon nether the Search bar. From there, they tin inquire a question retired large to get an audio response, past proceed the speech with follow-up questions. Users besides person the enactment to dive deeper by exploring web links.
“Search Live is designed for those moments erstwhile you request real-time help, and typing retired a query conscionable won’t chopped it,” Google wrote successful a blog post. “If you privation to inquire astir thing successful beforehand of you, similar however to instal a caller shelving unit, you tin alteration your camera to adhd ocular context. This way, Search tin spot what your camera sees and connection adjuvant suggestions, positive links to much accusation connected the web.”
Google notes that you tin besides entree Search Live if you’re already pointing your camera with Google Lens by tapping the “Live” enactment astatine the bottommost of the screen.
The tech elephantine besides announced that Google Translate’s “Live Translate” diagnostic is expanding to iOS. The feature, which lets you perceive real-time translations successful your headphones, is besides expanding to much countries, including Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh, and Thailand.
Google says this enlargement means that users connected Android and iOS tin entree real-time translations connected immoderate brace of headphones successful much than 70 languages.
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