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Google LLC\u2019s newest artificial intelligence tool promises to bring real-time translation to every smartphone user, enabling more natural and fluid conversations between speakers of different languages.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to a new blog post today that\u00a0announced<\/a> the arrival of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, which explained that it\u2019s the company\u2019s most advanced audio model for speech-to-speech translation released to date. Whereas traditional translation tools have always been cumbersome because of the way speech is processed and then translated in turns, Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is much speedier. According to Google, it can listen continuously as someone is talking, translate what they\u2019re saying and then speak to the other person in their own language.<\/p>\n

What this means is that non-multilinguals will be able to engage in almost-natural conversations, with only a couple of seconds of delay \u2013 similar, perhaps, to long-distance telephone calls back in the days of rotary telephones.<\/p>\n

Google Product Manager Anuda Weerasinghe and Senior Staff Software Engineer Tony Lu said in the co-authored blog post that Gemini 3.5 Live Translate can detect which language a person is speaking automatically, so there\u2019s no need to set anything up first. It supports more than 70 languages at launch, and that means it can support \u201cthousands\u201d of different language pairings.<\/p>\n

The company is making it available to developers<\/a> and enterprises<\/a>, so the capability is likely to be integrated with third-party communication platforms in the near future. Of course, it\u2019s also being rolled out to everyone directly in the Google Translate<\/a> application.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t Google\u2019s first attempt at real-time translation, but earlier efforts have always required specific hardware such as the company\u2019s own smartphones and earbuds. Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is different in that it can work on any smartphone. It\u2019s also based on a new architecture that changes how the translation process works.<\/p>\n

It relies on \u201ccontinuous stream translation,\u201d which means that it doesn\u2019t have to wait until one person has finished speaking before it starts generating a response. It results in much more fluid translated conversations, as the video below demonstrates:<\/p>\n

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Weerasinghe and Lu said Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is designed for the realities of the real world, meaning it can perform well in noisy environments and handle overlapping voices and informal speech. That means it\u2019s suitable for more practical use cases, including customer support calls, classrooms, guided tours, ride-sharing services, live broadcasts and so on, they said.<\/p>\n

They also emphasized the quality of the model\u2019s voices. Rather than the robotic, synthetic voices found on the standard Google Translate app, it tries to preserve the speaker\u2019s authenticity by matching their pacing, intonation and emotional tone. As such, the translated speech sounds a lot more natural, enhancing the flow of the conversation.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s long-term goal with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is to change the world by enabling people to converse naturally with anyone in the world, regardless of the languages they speak. By the sounds of it, it has a lot of potential to make life easier for travelers and anyone trying to do business with foreign entities.<\/p>\n

Image: Google<\/p>\n

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