Google was announced On Thursday, Live Translate, Google Translate’s AI-powered feature that lets you hear real-time translations on your headphones, is expanding to iOS and more countries.
With this expansion, the feature is now available on iOS and Android in the US, India, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, UK, Japan, Bangladesh and Thailand. Previously, it was only available on Android in the US, India and Mexico.
The feature essentially turns any pair of headphones into a real-time one-way translation device. The real-time headphone translation experience, which leverages Google’s Gemini AI, keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and rhythm intact. This makes it easier to monitor the conversation and tell who’s saying what, Google says.
The tech giant suggests that people can use the feature to do things like follow dinner conversations with relatives who speak another language or understand train announcements while traveling in a different country.
The feature works with any pair of headphones and supports more than 70 languages.
Users can access it by opening the Google Translate app, tapping the Live Translate option, and then connecting their headset.
The expansion of Live Translate comes on the same day that Google announced that it is expanding its AI search chat feature, Search Live, globally to all languages and locations where the AI feature is available. With this expansion, people in more than 200 countries and regions will have access to the feature, which was previously only available in the US and India.
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Launched in July 2025, Search Live lets users point their phone’s camera at objects to get real-time help, enabling ongoing conversations based on the visual frame from the camera feed. To use the feature, users need to open the Google app on Android or iOS and tap the Live icon below the search bar.
