Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices (https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/04/speech-translation-in-google-meet-is-now-rolling-out-to-mobile-devices.html)

I just encountered this feature via a “try this out now” prompt in a Google Meet meeting. It kind-of worked!

This is Google’s implementation of the ultimate sci-fi translation app, where two people can talk to each other in two separate languages and Meet translates from one to the other and - with a short delay - repeats the text in your preferred language, with a rough imitation of the original speaker’s voice.

It can only handle English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian at the moment. It’s also still very alpha - I ran it successfully between two laptops running web browsers, but then when I tried between an iPhone and an iPad it didn’t seem to work.

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