Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries

Google announced connected Thursday that “Live Translate,” its AI-powered Google Translate diagnostic that lets you perceive real-time translations successful your headphones, is expanding to iOS and to much countries.

With this expansion, the diagnostic is present disposable connected iOS and Android successful the U.S., India, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh, and Thailand. Previously, it was lone disposable connected Android successful the U.S., India, and Mexico.

The capableness fundamentally turns immoderate brace of headphones into a real-time, one-way translation device. The real-time headphone translations experience, which leverages Google’s Gemini AI, keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact. This makes it easier to travel the speech and archer who’s saying what, Google says.

The tech elephantine suggests that radical tin usage the diagnostic to bash things similar travel dinnertime conversations with relatives who talk different language, oregon recognize bid announcements portion traveling successful a antithetic country.

The diagnostic works with immoderate brace of headphones and supports much than 70 languages.

Users tin entree it by opening up the Google Translate app, tapping the “Live Translate” option, and past connecting their headphones.

The Live Translate enlargement comes the aforesaid time that Google announced 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, which was antecedently lone disposable successful the U.S. and India.

Search Live, which first launched successful July 2025, 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. To usage the feature, users request to unfastened the Google app connected Android oregon iOS and pat the Live icon nether the Search bar.