Live Translate with Headphones: Google expands feature to more countries across iOS, Android

Google has announced a wider rollout of its Live Translate with headphones feature for iOS users globally, following its initial release for Android in December last year.

The feature is now available in countries including France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Thailand, and the UK. As of December, the Translate app supported more than 70 languages, with a beta version available to Android users in the US, Mexico, and India.

First rolled out in December last year, the company integrated Gemini’s translation capabilities into Google Translate for text while also beginning tests of live speech-to-speech translation via headphones.


Earlier, the feature was limited to users in the US and India and supported a narrower set of languages, including English, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, and German.

The launch comes just two days after the company introduced a memory import feature on Thursday. The feature is aimed at helping users move “memories” and even full chat histories from other chatbots straight into Gemini.

Not just that, the company also revamped Google Maps to introduce AI capabilities in navigation earlier this month. The overhaul driven by Google's Gemini technology will introduce two AI features into a digital mapping service used by more than two billion people worldwide.