Overview
- Google Translate now offers a beta that streams real-time, natural-sounding translations to any headphones on Android in the U.S., Mexico and India.
- Using Gemini’s native speech-to-speech translation, the feature preserves tone, emphasis and cadence, supports auto language detection and handles noisy environments.
- Translate and Search now use advanced Gemini models for more accurate text translations of idioms and slang between English and nearly 20 languages, rolling out first in the U.S. and India.
- Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio across Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, with rollout underway to Gemini Live and Search Live, and updates reaching all U.S. Search Live users within a week.
- Developer updates include Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro TTS previews for richer expressivity, pacing and multi-speaker consistency, plus measured gains for Native Audio with a 71.5% ComplexFuncBench Audio score and 90% instruction adherence.