Overview
- A beta in the Translate app delivers real-time speech‑to‑speech translations to any paired headphones on Android in the U.S., Mexico and India, supporting more than 70 languages and preserving each speaker’s tone, emphasis and cadence.
- Gemini now powers smarter text translations between English and nearly 20 languages, improving idioms, slang and nuanced phrases across the Translate app, web and Search, starting in the U.S. and India.
- Translate’s language learning tools expand to nearly 20 new countries, including Germany, India, Sweden and Taiwan, with improved speaking feedback and streak tracking.
- Search Live is updated with Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio for more fluid, expressive voice answers and the option to slow responses, rolling out to U.S. users over the next week.
- Developers can preview Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro TTS in Google AI Studio, while Flash Native Audio brings sharper function calling, better instruction following and smoother multi‑turn conversations; iOS support for headphone live translate is planned for 2026.