13th December 2025 – (Mountain View) Google has unveiled a beta capability in its Translate app that streams real‑time spoken translations directly to users’ headphones, advancing the company’s push into translation and language‑learning tools.
The feature preserves the speaker’s tone, emphasis and cadence to make dialogue easier to follow during live conversations, speeches and lectures, or while watching foreign‑language films and television. Users simply connect headphones, open the Translate app, select “Live translate” and listen in their preferred language, according to Rose Yao, Google’s vice‑president of product and search, writing in a company blog post.
The rollout begins on Android in the United States, Mexico and India, with support for more than 70 languages and compatibility with any brand of headphones. Google said it intends to expand availability to iOS and additional countries in 2026.
